The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 8
When he had finished, he thanked her kindly and oiled himself thoroughly with his jeweled oil-can, to guard against mishap.
Who acts: man · What happens: finish, thank, oil, jewel, guard · To what, where: Woodman, man
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 thanked | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thanked | nsubj |
| 7 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thanked | obj |
| 9 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 7 thanked | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 oiled | cc |
| 11 | oiled | oil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thanked | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 oiled | obj |
| 13 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 11 oiled | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 can | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 can | nmod:poss |
| 16 | jeweled | jewel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 can | amod |
| 17 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 can | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 oil | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 oiled | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 guard | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 guard | mark |
| 22 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thanked | advcl |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 mishap | case |
| 24 | mishap | mishap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 guard | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | man | Woodman | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | oil | past | man not said here | man | thoroughly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 4 | jewel | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | guard | to-infinitive | man not said here | against mishap | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent against mishap=Theme |
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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