The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 104

Her friends were sorry, but could do nothing to help her; so Dorothy went to her own room and lay down on the bed and cried herself to sleep.

Who acts: friends, Dorothy · What happens: be, do, help, go, lay down, cry · To what, where: nothing, Oz, own room, bed

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 (friends, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friends	nmod:poss
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sorry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	parataxis
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 do	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 help	mark
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nothing	acl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 room	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 room	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 room	amod
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lay	cc
22	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 went	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 lay	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 bed	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 went	conj
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 cried	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sleep	mark
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cried	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Oz's friends				sorry property	tree rules
2	do	could		nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	help	to-infinitive		nothing not said here	Oz			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
4	go	past	Dorothy			Oz's own room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
5	lay down	infinitive	Dorothy not said here			the bed	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination
6	cry speech: express	past	Dorothy not said here	Oz				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
7	sleep	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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