The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 141

Sometimes she would cry bitterly for hours, with Toto sitting at her feet and looking into her face, whining dismally to show how sorry he was for his little mistress.

Who acts: life, Toto · What happens: cry, sit, look, whine, show, be · To what, where: feet · 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 (life, Toto), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 cry	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cry	aux
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 sitting	mark
10	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	nsubj
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cry	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looking	cc
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sitting	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whining	punct
21	whining	whine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sitting	conj
22	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	21 whining	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 whining	advcl
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 sorry	advmod
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 show	ccomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 mistress	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 mistress	cop
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 mistress	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mistress	nmod:poss
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mistress	amod
32	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorry	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	would	life		hour	bitterly, sometimes property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund	Toto	life's feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
3	look	gerund	Toto not said here			into life's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
4	whine	gerund	Toto not said here			dismally property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	show	to-infinitive	Toto not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Toto			for Toto's little mistress	tree rules

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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