The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 16
“They would be just the thing to take a long walk in, for they could not wear out.”
Who acts: shoes · What happens: be, take, not wear out · To what, where: thing, long walk
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 (shoes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 thing | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 thing | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thing | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 walk | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walk | amod |
| 12 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 take | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wear | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 wear | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wear | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wear | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wear | advmod |
| 19 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 wear | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | would | shoes = shoe | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | to-infinitive | a long walk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not wear out in a quote | could | shoes = shoe | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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