The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 63
And she handed the basket to the Scarecrow.
Who acts: girl · What happens: hand · To what, where: basket, Scarecrow
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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 handed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Scarecrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scarecrow | det |
| 8 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | girl | the basket | the Scarecrow | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to scarecrow=Destination |
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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