The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 27
Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins in their feet.
Who acts: others · What happens: take, not light, get · To what, where: pains, head, pins, feet
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 (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:1472): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 light | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 light | mark |
| 8 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 light | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 light | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pins | det |
| 15 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | others = other | pains | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pain=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not light | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | Scarecrow's head | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | others = other not said here | the pins | others's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pin=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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