The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 26
The soldier now blew upon a green whistle, and at once a young girl, dressed in a pretty green silk gown, entered the room.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: blow, dress, enter · To what, where: young girl, pretty green silk gown, room
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 (soldier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 blew | advmod |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 whistle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whistle | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whistle | amod |
| 8 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 girl | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 girl | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 girl | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girl | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 gown | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gown | det |
| 20 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gown | amod |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gown | amod |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gown | compound |
| 23 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dressed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 entered | punct |
| 25 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blew | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entered | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the soldier | now | upon a green whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | a young girl not said here | a pretty green silk gown | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the soldier not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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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