The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 42
The next morning, after breakfast, the green maiden came to fetch Dorothy, and she dressed her in one of the prettiest gowns, made of green brocaded satin.
Who acts: green maiden, maiden · What happens: come, fetch, dress, make, brocade · To what, where: Dorothy, cat, prettiest gowns
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 (green maiden, maiden), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 breakfast | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 breakfast | case |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 maiden | amod |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fetch | mark |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | xcomp |
| 14 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dressed | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dressed | nsubj |
| 18 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dressed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dressed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gowns | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gowns | det |
| 24 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 gowns | amod |
| 25 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 gowns | acl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 satin | case |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 satin | amod |
| 30 | brocaded | brocade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 satin | amod |
| 31 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the green maiden | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fetch | to-infinitive | the green maiden not said here | Dorothy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | past | maiden | cat | in one of the prettiest gowns | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | participle | the prettiest gowns not said here | of green brocaded satin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | brocade | participle | tree rules |
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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