The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 79
It was true; Toto had fallen down beside his little mistress.
Who acts: dog, Toto · What happens: be, fall down
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 (dog, Toto), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
| 5 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 true | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 fallen | compound:prt |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 mistress | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistress | amod |
| 12 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fallen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dog | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past · perfect | Toto | beside Toto's little mistress | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beside mistress=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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