The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 178

“And I shall never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry,” said Dorothy, beginning to cry.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: not see, say, begin, cry · To what, where: Aunt · 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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
7	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
8	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Aunt	flat
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Uncle	cc
10	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Aunt	conj
11	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Uncle	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beginning	punct
17	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 beginning	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not see in a quote	shall	Dorothy	Aunt and Uncle	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aunt=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	gerund	Dorothy not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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