The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 61
As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: gaze, turn, look · To what, where: wonder
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 (eyes), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 Dorothy | case |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | obl |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 gazed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wonder | case |
| 7 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fear | cc |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wonder | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | parataxis |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 sharply | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sharply | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 looked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 steadily | cc |
| 21 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 19 sharply | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | wonder and fear | as Dorothy; upon this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the eyes | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the eyes not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sharply=Theme |
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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