The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 5

Dorothy sat down in the middle of the raft and held Toto in her arms.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: sit down, hold · To what, where: middle, Toto, arms

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy), 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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 raft	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 raft	det
9	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 held	cc
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 arms	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Dorothy			the middle of the raft			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	hold	past	Dorothy not said here	Toto		Dorothy's arms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toto=Theme in arm=Location

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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