The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 39

When it was all ready, Oz sent word to his people that he was going to make a visit to a great brother Wizard who lived in the clouds.

Who acts: basket, Oz, man, great brother · What happens: be, send, go, make, live · To what, where: word, people, visit, clouds

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 (basket, Oz, man, great brother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ready	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ready	advmod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
7	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	conj
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 people	nmod:poss
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sent	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 going	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 going	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sent	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 visit	det
20	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 brother	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 brother	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brother	amod
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obl
25	Wizard	wizard	SCONJ	_	27 lived	mark
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lived	nsubj
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 brother	acl:relcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 clouds	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clouds	det
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lived	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	basket				ready property	tree rules
2	send	past	Oz	word	man's people			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to people=Destination
3	go	past · progressive	man					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	man not said here	a visit			to a great brother	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset visit=Product
5	live	past	a great brother			the clouds		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location

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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