The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 125
Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she could; for she was glad the Wicked Witch had decided not to kill her.
Who acts: Dorothy, Wicked Witch · What happens: go, work, make up, be, decide, not kill · To what, where: mind, Witch
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, Wicked Witch), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 4 work | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mind | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mind | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 work | mark |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 work | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hard | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 glad | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 glad | case |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 glad | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 glad | cop |
| 23 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Witch | det |
| 25 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Witch | amod |
| 26 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 decided | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 decided | aux |
| 28 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 glad | ccomp |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 kill | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 decided | xcomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | with Dorothy's mind; meekly property | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mind=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | make up | participle | Dorothy's mind not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Dorothy | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | decide | past · perfect | the Wicked Witch | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | not kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wicked Witch not said here | Witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | mind | Dorothy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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