The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 44

And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, make · To what, where: step, wink

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 carry	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 carry	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 things	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 curious	advmod
6	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 things	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	cop
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 carry	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carry	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 carry	aux
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 carry	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 place	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 place	det
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carry	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 place	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 steps	case
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 steps	nummod
24	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 carry	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 step	det
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 carry	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 wink	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wink	det
34	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 eye	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 eye	det
37	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wink	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can · present	one of the curious things about Shoes					to any place in the world; in three steps; carry property	tree rules
2	make	future · passive		each step		the wink of a eye			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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