The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 57

Indeed, a jolly little clown came walking toward them, and Dorothy could see that in spite of his pretty clothes of red and yellow and green he was completely covered with cracks, running every which way and showing plainly that he had been mended in many places.

Who acts: jolly little clown, Dorothy · What happens: come, walk, see, cover, run, show · To what, where: Joker, way, many places, pretty clothes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (jolly little clown, Dorothy), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clown	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clown	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clown	amod
6	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 came	xcomp
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 walking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 see	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 covered	mark
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 spite	case
18	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 clothes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 clothes	nmod:poss
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	amod
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 spite	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 red	case
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 yellow	cc
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 red	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 green	cc
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 red	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 covered	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	aux:pass
31	completely	completely	ADV	_	32 covered	advmod
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 see	ccomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 cracks	case
34	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 covered	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 running	punct
36	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 covered	advcl
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 way	det
38	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 running	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 showing	cc
41	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 running	conj
42	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	41 showing	advmod
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 mended	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 mended	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 mended	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 mended	aux:pass
47	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 showing	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 places	case
49	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 places	amod
50	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 mended	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a jolly little clown			indeed property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	a jolly little clown not said here			toward clowns = clown	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory
3	see	could	Dorothy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	cover	past · passive		Joker		with cracks; in spite of Joker's pretty clothes of red; completely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in spite=Theme
5	run	gerund		every way			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
6	show	gerund				plainly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mend	past · perfect · passive		Joker	many places		tree rules
8	spite			Joker's pretty clothes of red			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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