The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 31
And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.
Who acts: Dorothy, Scarecrow, arms · What happens: oil, bend, be · To what, where: arms, rust
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Scarecrow, arms), 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 oiled | cc |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oiled | nsubj |
| 3 | oiled | oil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 oiled | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bent | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bent | nsubj |
| 8 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 oiled | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bent | obj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 8 bent | advmod |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 free | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 free | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 free | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 free | advmod |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bent | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 rust | case |
| 17 | rust | rust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 free | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 free | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 new | case |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 good | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 oiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil | past | Dorothy | arms = arm | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | the Scarecrow | arms = arm | carefully property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material | |||
| 3 | is | past | arms = arm | rust | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | arms = arm not said here | as new | 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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