The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 77
Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
Who acts: Dorothy, pole · What happens: reach up, lift, stuff, be · To what, where: arms, figure, pole, quite light
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, pole), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 reached | compound:prt |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 arms | det |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lifted | cc |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 figure | det |
| 9 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pole | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pole | det |
| 12 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stuffed | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 stuffed | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stuffed | punct |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stuffed | aux:pass |
| 17 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lifted | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 straw | case |
| 19 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuffed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 light | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 light | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 light | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 light | amod |
| 24 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stuffed | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach up | past | Dorothy | both arms | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | Dorothy not said here | the figure | the pole | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme off pole=Destination | |||
| 3 | stuff | gerund · passive | Dorothy not said here | with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | pole | quite light | tree rules |
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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