The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 5
They looked at Dorothy and her strangely assorted company with wondering eyes, and the children all ran away and hid behind their mothers when they saw the Lion; but no one spoke to them.
Who acts: people, children, one · What happens: look, assort, wonder, run away, hide, see · To what, where: Lion, people · 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 (people, children, one), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Dorothy | case |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 company | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 company | nmod:poss |
| 7 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 8 assorted | advmod |
| 8 | assorted | assort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 company | amod |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dorothy | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 company | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hid | cc |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 mothers | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hid | obl |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 saw | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hid | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lion | det |
| 29 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 saw | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 spoke | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 spoke | cc |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 one | det |
| 33 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spoke | nsubj |
| 34 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 spoke | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | people | at Dorothy and sky's assorted company with wondering eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dorothy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assort | participle | strangely property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | run away | past | the children | all, away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | the children not said here | behind people's mothers | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind mother=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | past | people | the Lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other | past | no one | people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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