The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 85
But the Scarecrow seized the oil-can from Dorothy’s basket and oiled the Woodman’s jaws, so that after a few moments he could talk as well as before.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Lion · What happens: seize, oil, talk · To what, where: basket, jaws
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Lion), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 seized | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 can | det |
| 6 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 can | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 oil | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 basket | case |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 basket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dorothy | case |
| 12 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 oiled | cc |
| 14 | oiled | oil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Woodman | det |
| 16 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Woodman | case |
| 18 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 oiled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 talk | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 talk | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 moments | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 moments | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 moments | amod |
| 25 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 talk | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 talk | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 talk | aux |
| 28 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 oiled | parataxis |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 32 before | cc |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 as | fixed |
| 32 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 talk | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Scarecrow | Dorothy's basket | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from basket=Source | ||||
| 2 | oil | past | the Scarecrow not said here | the Woodman's jaws | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent jaw=Destination | ||||
| 3 | talk | could | Lion | moment | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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