The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 36
Then Oz painted it on the inside with a coat of thin glue, to make it airtight, after which he announced that the balloon was ready.
Who acts: Oz, man, balloon · What happens: paint, make, announce, be · To what, where: silk, inside · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, man, balloon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 painted | advmod |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 painted | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 inside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 inside | det |
| 7 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 coat | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coat | det |
| 10 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 glue | case |
| 12 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 glue | amod |
| 13 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coat | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | airtight | airtight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 announced | punct |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 announced | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 announced | nsubj |
| 23 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 ready | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 balloon | det |
| 26 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ready | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ready | cop |
| 28 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 announced | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | Oz | silk | the inside | then | with a coat of thin glue | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with coat=Theme | |
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | silk | airtight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | past | man | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the balloon | ready property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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