The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 61
Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
Who acts: head · What happens: be, stuff, paint, represent · To what, where: small sack, mouth, Scarecrow, face
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 (head), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sack | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sack | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sack | amod |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sack | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 straw | case |
| 9 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuffed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyes | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stuffed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nose | punct |
| 14 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mouth | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mouth | cc |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sack | conj |
| 18 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mouth | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 painted | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 represent | mark |
| 22 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 painted | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 face | det |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 represent | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Scarecrow's head | a small sack and mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stuff | participle | a small sack and mouth not said here | with straw; with eyes and nose | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | mouth not said here | Scarecrow | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | represent | to-infinitive | a face | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=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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