The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 2
The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely.
Who acts: tree, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, splendid fire · What happens: make, protect, chop, build, warm, feel · To what, where: good thick covering, houses, great pile, splendid fire, Dorothy
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 (tree, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, splendid fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 covering | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 covering | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 covering | amod |
| 8 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 protect | mark |
| 10 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 protect | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 dew | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dew | det |
| 14 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protect | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 chopped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 chopped | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Woodman | det |
| 18 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Woodman | compound |
| 19 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 chopped | nsubj |
| 20 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pile | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pile | amod |
| 23 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chopped | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pile | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 axe | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 axe | nmod:poss |
| 28 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chopped | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 built | cc |
| 30 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 built | nsubj |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fire | det |
| 33 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fire | amod |
| 34 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 built | obj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 warmed | nsubj |
| 36 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fire | acl:relcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 warmed | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 warmed | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | obj |
| 41 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | xcomp |
| 42 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 lonely | advmod |
| 43 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 feel | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the tree | a good thick covering | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covering=Product | ||||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | the tree not said here | houses = house | from the dew | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from dew=Theme | |||
| 3 | chop | past | the Tin Woodman | a great pile of wood | with tree's axe | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pile=Patient with axe=Instrument | |||
| 4 | build | past | Dorothy | a splendid fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 5 | warm | past | a splendid fire | Dorothy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | past | a splendid fire not said here | Dorothy | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | feel | infinitive | Dorothy not said here | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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