The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 43
Dorothy put on a green silk apron and tied a green ribbon around Toto’s neck, and they started for the Throne Room of the Great Oz.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: put, tie, start · To what, where: green silk apron, green ribbon, neck
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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 apron | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 apron | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apron | amod |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 apron | compound |
| 7 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tied | cc |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ribbon | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ribbon | amod |
| 12 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 14 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Toto | case |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ribbon | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 started | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 started | nsubj |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Room | det |
| 23 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Room | compound |
| 24 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Oz. | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Oz. | det |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Oz. | amod |
| 28 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Room | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Dorothy | a green silk apron | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on apron=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | Dorothy not said here | a green ribbon | Toto's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=Patient | |||
| 3 | start | past | Dorothy | for the Throne Room of the Great Oz. | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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