The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 151
So that when Dorothy walked across the floor she stumbled over the bar, not being able to see it, and fell at full length.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: walk, stumble, not be, see, fall · To what, where: floor, bar, full length
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 stumbled | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 walked | advmod |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stumbled | advcl |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 floor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 floor | det |
| 8 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stumbled | nsubj |
| 10 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 bar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bar | det |
| 13 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stumbled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stumbled | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stumbled | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 length | case |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 length | amod |
| 26 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Dorothy | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stumble | past | Dorothy | the bar | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bar=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | not is | gerund | Dorothy not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | floor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Dorothy not said here | full length | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
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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