The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 23
Toto had always loved to chase mice when he lived in Kansas, and he saw no harm in it.
Who acts: Toto · What happens: love, chase, live, see · To what, where: Toto, mice, Kansas, harm
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 loved | advmod |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 chase | mark |
| 6 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loved | xcomp |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chase | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lived | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chase | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Kansas | case |
| 12 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 harm | det |
| 18 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past · perfect · passive | Toto | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chase not said to happen | to-infinitive | mice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | past | Toto | Kansas | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kansas=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Toto | no harm | harm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=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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