The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 23

And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy’s knee.

Who acts: tallest · What happens: make, be, not be · To what, where: people

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: who acts (tallest), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 strangest	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 strangest	punct
3	strangest	strange	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 strangest	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 made	advmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 strangest	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 china	case
13	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 clothes	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 clothes	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 clothes	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 clothes	nmod:poss
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 china	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 small	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 small	cc
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 small	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 small	advmod
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strangest	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 higher	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tallest	det
26	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 higher	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tallest	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 higher	cop
30	no	no	ADV	_	31 higher	advmod
31	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 small	parataxis
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 knee	case
33	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 knee	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Dorothy	case
35	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 higher	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 strangest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		this people	of china and people's clothes; all property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is	past			small property	tree rules
3	not is	past	the tallest of people		than Dorothy's knee; high 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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