The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 17

The men were dressed in blue, of the same shade as their hats, and wore well-polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops.

What happens: dress, wear, polish · To what, where: men, blue, polished boots, tops

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dressed	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	aux:pass
4	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 blue	case
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shade	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 shade	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shade	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shade	amod
11	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dressed	conj
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 hats	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hats	nmod:poss
14	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shade	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wore	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wore	cc
17	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dressed	parataxis
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 polished	advmod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 well	punct
20	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 boots	amod
21	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wore	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 roll	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 roll	det
24	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 roll	amod
25	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wore	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 blue	case
27	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 roll	nmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 tops	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tops	det
30	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wore	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	past · passive	the men	blue		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	wear	past	polished boots	the tops	with a deep roll of blue	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent boot=Theme
3	polish	participle			well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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