The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 42
The Tin Woodman had chopped a big pile of wood, and now he made a fire of it, and Oz held the bottom of the balloon over the fire so that the hot air that arose from it would be caught in the silken bag.
Who acts: Woodman, Oz, hot air · What happens: chop, make, hold, arise, catch, fire · To what, where: Tin Woodman, fire, bottom, hot air, silken bag
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 (Woodman, Oz, hot air), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chopped | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chopped | aux |
| 5 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pile | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pile | amod |
| 8 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chopped | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pile | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 made | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chopped | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fire | det |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fire | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 held | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 held | cc |
| 22 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 held | nsubj |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 held | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 balloon | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 balloon | det |
| 28 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bottom | nmod |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 fire | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fire | det |
| 31 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 balloon | nmod |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 43 caught | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 caught | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 air | det |
| 35 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 air | amod |
| 36 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 arose | nsubj |
| 38 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 air | acl:relcl |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 arose | obl |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 caught | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 caught | aux:pass |
| 43 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 held | advcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 bag | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 bag | det |
| 46 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 bag | amod |
| 47 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 caught | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop | past · perfect · passive | the Tin Woodman | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient pile=Result | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Woodman | a fire of fire | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | |||
| 3 | hold | past | Oz | the bottom of the balloon over the fire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arise | past | the hot air | fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch | would · passive | the hot air | the silken bag | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fire | fire | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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