The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 3
But he at once unlocked their spectacles, which he put back into the green box, and gave them many good wishes to carry with them.
Who acts: Guardian, spectacles · What happens: unlock, put back, give, carry · To what, where: spectacles, green box, many good wishes, hands
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guardian, spectacles), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 unlocked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unlocked | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 unlocked | obl |
| 5 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spectacles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unlocked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spectacles | acl:relcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 put | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 box | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 box | amod |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unlocked | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wishes | amod |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wishes | amod |
| 23 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 carry | mark |
| 25 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gave | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carry | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unlocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unlock | past | Guardian | hands's spectacles | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put back | past | hands's spectacles | the green box | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Guardian not said here | many good wishes | hands = hand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wish=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | Guardian not said here | with hands = hand | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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