The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 72
But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.
Who acts: we · What happens: take away, stiffen, stand, look · To what, where: any
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 (we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 taken | cc |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 7 taken | mark |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 any | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 taken | advmod |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 joints | nmod:poss |
| 10 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 stiffen | obl |
| 13 | stiffen | stiffen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 taken | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stand | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stand | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 stand | advmod |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stiffen | ccomp |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 stand | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stand | conj |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 22 look | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | present · passive | any | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stiffen | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | stand | can | we | straight property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | we not said here | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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