The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 145
She watched Dorothy carefully, to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them.
Who acts: girl · What happens: watch, see, take off, think, steal · To what, where: Dorothy, shoes · 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 (girl), 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 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 watched | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 watched | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 took | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 took | advmod |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | advcl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 steal | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 steal | aux |
| 19 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 steal | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | girl | Dorothy | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take off a condition, not said to happen | past | girl | girl's shoes | ever | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | girl not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | steal | might | girl | Shoes = shoe | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
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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