The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 58
The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily, he said:
Who acts: Clown, Joker · What happens: put, puff out, nod, say · To what, where: hands, pockets, cheeks, head · 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 (Clown, Joker), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Clown | det |
| 2 | Clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pockets | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl | |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 puffing | mark |
| 12 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 said | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 puffing | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 puffing | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nodding | cc |
| 17 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 puffing | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nodding | obj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nodding | obl |
| 22 | saucily | saucily | ADV | _ | 17 nodding | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 puffing | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Clown | Joker's hands | Joker's pockets | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | puff out | gerund | Joker not said here | Joker's cheeks | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Source | ||||
| 3 | nod | gerund | Joker not said here | Joker's head | at clowns = clown; saucily property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Joker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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