The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 8

It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock.

Who acts: dress, gingham · What happens: be, fade · To what, where: gingham, blue, pretty frock

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 (dress, gingham), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gingham	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gingham	cop
3	gingham	gingham	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 checks	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 checks	case
6	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gingham	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 white	case
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 checks	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blue	cc
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 white	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 faded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 faded	cc
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	18 faded	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blue	det
15	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 faded	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 faded	aux:pass
17	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	18 faded	advmod
18	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gingham	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 washings	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 washings	amod
21	washings	washing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 faded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 frock	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frock	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frock	cop
25	still	still	ADV	_	28 frock	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 frock	det
27	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 frock	amod
28	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gingham	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gingham	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dress	gingham and checks of white and a pretty frock			tree rules
2	fade	past · passive	gingham and checks of white and a pretty frock not said here	the blue		with many washings; somewhat property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with washing=Instrument
3	is a	past	dress	a pretty frock	still		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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