The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 34
Five little fiddlers played as loudly as possible, and the people were laughing and singing, while a big table near by was loaded with delicious fruits and nuts, pies and cakes, and many other good things to eat.
Who acts: Five little fiddlers, people · What happens: play, laugh, sing, load, eat · To what, where: many other good things, big table
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 (Five little fiddlers, people), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fiddlers | nummod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fiddlers | amod |
| 3 | fiddlers | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 loudly | advmod |
| 6 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 played | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 possible | mark |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 played | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laughing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laughing | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laughing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughing | aux |
| 14 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 played | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 singing | cc |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 laughing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 table | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 table | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 table | amod |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laughing | obl |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 table | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 loaded | mark |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 loaded | aux:pass |
| 25 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 laughing | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fruits | case |
| 27 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fruits | amod |
| 28 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 loaded | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 nuts | cc |
| 30 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fruits | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pies | punct |
| 32 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fruits | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cakes | cc |
| 34 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fruits | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 things | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 things | cc |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 things | amod |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 things | amod |
| 39 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 things | amod |
| 40 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 played | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 eat | mark |
| 42 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 things | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Five little fiddlers | many other good things | loudly property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | the people | a big table | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the people not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | load | past · passive | the people not said here | with delicious fruits and nuts and pies and cakes | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with fruit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | Five little fiddlers not said here | many other good things not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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