The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 85

But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done.

Who acts: it, one, night · What happens: take, make, be, come, not do · To what, where: raft, work

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 (it, one, night), 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	_	3 takes	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 takes	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 raft	det
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 industrious	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	15 industrious	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 industrious	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 industrious	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 industrious	cop
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 industrious	case
15	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	vocative
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 untiring	cc
17	untiring	untiring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 industrious	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 Woodman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Woodman	det
20	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Woodman	compound
21	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 untiring	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 work	det
28	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 done	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux:pass
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 done	advmod
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	it		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	to-infinitive		a raft			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raft=Product
3	is	present	one			industrious property	tree rules
4	be		one not said here			as the Tin Woodman	tree rules
5	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not do	past · passive		the work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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