The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 35
My cow has broken her leg, and I must take her to the mender’s shop and have it glued on again.
Who acts: I, leg · What happens: break, take, have, glue on · To what, where: cow, pail, shop, leg
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 (I, leg), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 leg | nmod:poss |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 broken | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 shop | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mender | det |
| 15 | mender | mender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shop | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 mender | case |
| 17 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | glued | glue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 have | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 glued | compound:prt |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 glued | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect · passive | My cow | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient leg=Result | |||||
| 2 | take | must | I | pail | the mender's shop | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to shop=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | present | I not said here | leg | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glue on | participle | leg not said here | again | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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