The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 76
There was a bell beside the gate, and Dorothy pushed the button and heard a silvery tinkle sound within.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: silvery tinkle sound
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pushed | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bell | det |
| 4 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pushed | cc |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pushed | nsubj |
| 11 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 button | det |
| 13 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pushed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pushed | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 17 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sound | amod |
| 18 | tinkle | tinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sound | compound |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heard | obj |
| 20 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 heard | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dorothy | push property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Dorothy not said here | a silvery tinkle sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=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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