The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 28
So Dorothy said good-bye to all her friends except Toto, and taking the dog in her arms followed the green girl through seven passages and up three flights of stairs until they came to a room at the front of the Palace.
Who acts: Dorothy, arms · What happens: say, take, follow, come · To what, where: dog, seven passages, green girl, front · 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, arms), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bye | punct |
| 6 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 good | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 friends | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 friends | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bye | obl |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 Toto | case |
| 12 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taking | cc |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taking | obj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 followed | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 followed | nsubj |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taking | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 passages | case |
| 26 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 passages | nummod |
| 27 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 taking | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flights | cc |
| 29 | up | up | ADV | _ | 30 three | advmod |
| 30 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 flights | nummod |
| 31 | flights | flight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 passages | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 stairs | case |
| 33 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 flights | nmod |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 came | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 room | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 room | det |
| 39 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 front | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 front | det |
| 42 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Palace | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Palace | det |
| 45 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 front | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Dorothy not said here | the dog | seven passages and three flights of stairs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | past | girl's arms | the green girl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Dorothy | the front of the Palace | to a room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location |
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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