The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 33

The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.

Who acts: Quadlings · What happens: be, look, dress, show, yellow · To what, where: Quadlings, red

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quadlings), 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 Quadlings	det
2	Quadlings	Quadling	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 dressed	nsubj:pass
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 Quadlings	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 short	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 short	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Quadlings	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fat	cc
9	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 short	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 short	conj
12	chubby	chubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 good	cc
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chubby	conj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
16	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chubby	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Quadlings	punct
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	aux:pass
19	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 dressed	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 red	case
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dressed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 showed	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 showed	nsubj
25	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dressed	conj
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 showed	xcomp
27	against	against	ADP	_	30 grass	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 grass	det
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grass	amod
30	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bright	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 grain	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grain	det
33	yellowing	yellow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 grain	amod
34	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grass	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Quadlings Quadlings			short property	tree rules
2	be		the Quadlings Quadlings not said here				tree rules
3	look	past	the Quadlings Quadlings not said here			chubby property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	dress	past · passive		the Quadlings Quadlings	red		tree rules
5	show	past				bright property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	yellow	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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