The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 102
Sorrowfully Dorothy left the Throne Room and went back where the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were waiting to hear what Oz had said to her.
Who acts: Sorrowfully, Lion, Oz · What happens: leave, go back, wait, hear, say · To what, where: Throne Room, Sorrowfully · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrowfully, Lion, Oz), 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 | Sorrowfully | Sorrowfully | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sorrowfully | flat |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Room | det |
| 5 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Room | compound |
| 6 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 waiting | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 waiting | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Scarecrow | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Scarecrow | det |
| 15 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Woodman | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Woodman | det |
| 18 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Woodman | compound |
| 19 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 waiting | aux |
| 21 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hear | mark |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 waiting | advcl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 said | obj |
| 25 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | aux |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 hear | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Sorrowfully | the Throne Room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Sorrowfully not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Oz | Sorrowfully | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to she=Recipient |
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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