The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 55
Dorothy nodded gravely and the Queen made a curtsy, after which she became quite friendly with the little girl.
Who acts: Dorothy, Queen · What happens: nod, make, become · To what, where: curtsy
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 (Dorothy, Queen), 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 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 2 nodded | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Queen | det |
| 6 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 curtsy | det |
| 9 | curtsy | curtsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 became | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 friendly | advmod |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 girl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 friendly | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | Dorothy | gravely property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Queen | a curtsy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtsy=Product | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Dorothy | friendly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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