The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 3

She gave some to Toto, and taking a pail from the shelf she carried it down to the little brook and filled it with clear, sparkling water.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: give, take, carry down, fill, sparkle · To what, where: some, Toto, pail, shelf, little brook, water

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), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Toto	case
5	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taking	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 carried	csubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pail	det
10	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 shelf	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelf	det
13	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 carried	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 brook	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brook	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 brook	amod
21	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 filled	cc
23	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 filled	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 clear	case
26	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 filled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sparkling	punct
28	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 filled	advcl
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sparkling	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Dorothy	some	Toto			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Theme to toto=Recipient
2	take	gerund		a pail		the shelf		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pail=Theme from shelf=Initial_Location
3	carry down	past	Dorothy	pail		the little brook		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brook=Destination
4	fill	past	Dorothy not said here	pail			with clear	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with clear=Instrument
5	sparkle	gerund	Dorothy not said here	water				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme

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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