The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 60

For the Silver Shoes had fallen off in her flight through the air, and were lost forever in the desert.

What happens: fall off, lose · To what, where: desert

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: 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 Shoes	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Shoes	det
3	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Shoes	compound
4	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 fallen	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fallen	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 flight	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 flight	nmod:poss
10	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lost	cc
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lost	aux:pass
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fallen	conj
18	forever	forever	ADV	_	17 lost	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 desert	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 desert	det
21	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past · perfect						for the Silver Shoes; through the air; in Dorothy's flight	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flight=Attribute
2	lose	past · passive				the desert		forever property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in desert=Eventuality

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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