The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 38
So he sent the soldier with the green whiskers for a big clothes basket, which he fastened with many ropes to the bottom of the balloon.
Who acts: man, big clothes basket · What happens: send, fasten · To what, where: soldier
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 (man, big clothes basket), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 whiskers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 whiskers | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whiskers | amod |
| 9 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 basket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 basket | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 basket | amod |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 basket | compound |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fastened | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fastened | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fastened | nsubj |
| 18 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 basket | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 ropes | case |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ropes | amod |
| 21 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fastened | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bottom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bottom | det |
| 24 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fastened | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 balloon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 balloon | det |
| 27 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bottom | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | man | the soldier | with the green whiskers; for a big clothes basket | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | a big clothes basket | with many ropes; to the bottom of the balloon | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rope=Instrument to bottom=Co-Patient |
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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