The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 18
Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors.
What happens: be, make, paint · To what, where: Scattered many houses, brightest colors
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 5 houses | amod |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Scattered | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 houses | cop |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 houses | amod |
| 5 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 houses | acl |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 china | case |
| 9 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 painted | cc |
| 11 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 colors | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 colors | det |
| 14 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 colors | amod |
| 15 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 painted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 houses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Scattered many houses | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | Scattered many houses not said here | of china; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | the brightest colors | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in color=Destination |
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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