The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 10
She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, fill, lay · To what, where: little basket, basket, cupboard, white cloth, top
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 basket | amod |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bread | case |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 cupboard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cupboard | det |
| 13 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laying | punct |
| 15 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cloth | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cloth | amod |
| 18 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laying | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 top | det |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | a little basket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | girl not said here | basket | the cupboard | with bread | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bread=Instrument | ||
| 3 | lay | gerund | girl not said here | a white cloth | the top | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over top=Destination |
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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