The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 14

They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also.

Who acts: rains · What happens: take, leave, be · To what, where: sparkle, eyes, rains, red, cheeks

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rains), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sparkle	det
5	sparkle	sparkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sparkle	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gray	det
13	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gray	amod
14	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 taken	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 red	det
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 taken	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 cheeks	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cheeks	nmod:poss
23	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taken	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lips	cc
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cheeks	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gray	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gray	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gray	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gray	cop
30	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taken	conj
31	also	also	ADV	_	30 gray	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	rains = rain	the sparkle	Aunt's eyes		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sparkle=Theme from eye=Initial_Location
2	leave	past	rains = rain not said here	rains = rain			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme gray=Attribute
3	take	past · perfect	rains = rain	the red	Aunt's cheeks and lips		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent red=Theme from cheek=Initial_Location
4	is	past	rains = rain			gray 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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