The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 12

His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket.

Who acts: padded hands, nuts, Lion · What happens: be, drop, put · To what, where: many, basket

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (padded hands, nuts, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
2	padded	padded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hands	amod
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clumsy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clumsy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 clumsy	advmod
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 small	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nuts	det
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 small	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 small	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 small	advmod
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clumsy	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 dropped	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dropped	nsubj
15	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 small	advcl
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dropped	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 many	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 basket	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 basket	det
24	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clumsy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lion's padded hands			clumsy property	tree rules
2	is	past	the nuts			small property	tree rules
3	drop	past	Lion	many			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
4	put	past	Lion		the basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=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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