The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 107
She stood, with Toto in her arms, watching the sad fate of her comrades and thinking it would soon be her turn.
Who acts: Dorothy, fate · What happens: stand, watch, think, be, fate · To what, where: arms, sad fate, turn, comrades · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, fate), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Toto | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Toto | case |
| 5 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watching | punct |
| 10 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fate | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fate | amod |
| 13 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watching | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 comrades | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 16 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fate | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thinking | cc |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 watching | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turn | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | aux |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 turn | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 turn | cop |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 turn | nmod:poss |
| 24 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's arms | with Toto | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Dorothy not said here | the sad fate of Dorothy's comrades | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Dorothy not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | would | fate | Dorothy's turn | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fate | Dorothy's comrades | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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