The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 26

Luckily, when the farmer made my head, one of the first things he did was to paint my ears, so that I heard what was going on.

Who acts: farmer, I · What happens: make, do, be, hear, go on · To what, where: head, first things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer, I), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 made	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 things	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 things	acl:relcl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 paint	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 paint	mark
19	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ears	nmod:poss
21	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 paint	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 heard	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 paint	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 going	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 heard	ccomp
30	on	on	ADP	_	29 going	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the farmer	my head	one of the first things obl; luckily property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product
2	do	past	farmer	the first things not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	is	past			paint property	tree rules
4	hear	past	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go on	past · progressive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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