The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 142
Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
Who acts: Toto, Dorothy, little girl, that · What happens: not care, be, know, make · To what, where: Kansas, Toto · 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 (Toto, Dorothy, little girl, that), 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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 Kansas | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Kansas | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Kansas | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Kansas | case |
| 10 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 care | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 Land | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Land | det |
| 13 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Kansas | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Oz | case |
| 15 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Land | nmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 care | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 him | mark |
| 19 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 him | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 long | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 knew | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 knew | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 knew | nsubj |
| 26 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 girl | amod |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 unhappy | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 unhappy | cop |
| 31 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 knew | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 made | cc |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 made | nsubj |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 unhappy | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | obj |
| 37 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 made | xcomp |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 made | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | Toto | long property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Toto | Kansas or the Land of Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Dorothy | with Oz | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Toto | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the little girl | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | past | that | Toto | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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