The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 58
“Thank you,” replied Dorothy, and then the kind Stork flew into the air and was soon out of sight.
Who acts: Dorothy, kind Stork · What happens: thank, reply, fly, be · To what, where: you, air, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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, kind Stork), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 2 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Thank | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thank | conj |
| 7 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 flew | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Stork | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Stork | amod |
| 13 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thank | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sight | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sight | cop |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 sight | advmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the kind Stork | then | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 4 | is | past | the kind Stork not said here | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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