The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 95
The little girl began to weep, she was so much disappointed; and the eyes winked again and looked upon her anxiously, as if the Great Oz felt that she could help him if she would.
Who acts: little girl, girl, eyes, Great Oz, Oz · What happens: begin, weep, be, wink, look, feel · To what, where: Kansas
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 (little girl, girl, eyes, Great 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 weep | mark |
| 6 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 disappointed | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 disappointed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disappointed | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 disappointed | advmod |
| 12 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 weep | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 winked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 winked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyes | det |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 winked | nsubj |
| 17 | winked | wink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 winked | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 winked | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 anxiously | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 anxiously | nmod:poss |
| 23 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 20 looked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felt | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 felt | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 felt | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Oz | det |
| 28 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Oz | flat |
| 29 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 winked | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 help | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 help | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | aux |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 felt | ccomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 help | obj |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 would | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 would | nsubj |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the little girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | the little girl not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wink | past | the eyes | again | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the eyes not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon anxiously=Theme | |||||
| 6 | feel a condition, not said to happen | past | the Great Oz | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | help | could | Oz | Kansas | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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