The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 52

Just then a bell rang, and the green girl said to Dorothy, “That is the signal.

Who acts: bell, green girl, That · What happens: ring, say, be · To what, where: Dorothy, signal · 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 (bell, green girl, That), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 rang	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 rang	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rang	nsubj
5	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rang	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Dorothy	case
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 signal	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 signal	punct
16	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 signal	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 signal	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 signal	det
19	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Dorothy	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ring	past	a bell			then	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the green girl		Dorothy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dorothy=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	That	the signal			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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