The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 17
She took off her old leather shoes and tried on the silver ones, which fitted her as well as if they had been made for her.
Who acts: Dorothy, silver ones · What happens: take off, try, fit, make · To what, where: old leather shoes, Dorothy, shoes
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 (Dorothy, silver ones), 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 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shoes | amod |
| 6 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoes | compound |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tried | cc |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ones | compound |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fitted | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fitted | nsubj |
| 16 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ones | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fitted | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 16 fitted | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fitted | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's old leather shoes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Dorothy not said here | on the silver ones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | fit | past | the silver ones | Dorothy | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | shoes = shoe | for Dorothy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary |
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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