The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 154

The little girl, seeing she had lost one of her pretty shoes, grew angry, and said to the Witch, “Give me back my shoe!”

Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: see, lose, grow, say, give back · To what, where: one, Witch, shoe, little girl · 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 (little girl, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeing	punct
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 girl	acl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 seeing	ccomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 lost	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 shoes	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shoes	nmod:poss
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shoes	amod
13	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 Witch	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Witch	det
22	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Give	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Give	punct
25	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 Give	iobj
27	back	back	ADP	_	25 Give	compound:prt
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoe	nmod:poss
29	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Give	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 Give	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the little girl not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	past · perfect	girl	one of girl's pretty shoes			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
3	grow	past	the little girl			angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	the little girl not said here		the Witch		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to witch=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give back in a quote	infinitive		my shoe	the little girl = girl		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient shoe=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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