The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 84
“That just happened,” returned Dorothy simply; “I could not help it.”
Who acts: That, Oz. · What happens: happen, return, not help · To what, where: Dorothy, East · 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 (That, Oz.), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 9 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 7 returned | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 returned | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | past | That | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | past | Dorothy | simply property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not help in a quote | could | Oz. | East | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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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