The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 140
Dorothy’s life became very sad as she grew to understand that it would be harder than ever to get back to Kansas and Aunt Em again.
Who acts: life, blood · What happens: become, grow, understand, be, get back · To what, where: Kansas
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 (life, blood), 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 | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dorothy | case |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 grew | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sad | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 understand | mark |
| 11 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 harder | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 harder | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 harder | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 harder | cop |
| 16 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 understand | parataxis |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 harder | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Kansas | case |
| 23 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 get | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Em | cc |
| 25 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Em | compound |
| 26 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Kansas | conj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Dorothy's life | sad property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | would | blood | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get back | to-infinitive | blood not said here | Kansas and Aunt Em | ever; again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result |
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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