The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 171
Seeing that she had really melted away to nothing, Dorothy drew another bucket of water and threw it over the mess.
Who acts: Dorothy, Witch · What happens: see, melt away, draw, throw · To what, where: bucket, mess
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, Witch), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 drew | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 melted | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 melted | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 melted | aux |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 melted | advmod |
| 6 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 melted | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 nothing | case |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 away | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 bucket | det |
| 14 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bucket | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 threw | cc |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 threw | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 mess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mess | det |
| 22 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Dorothy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | melt away | past · perfect | Witch | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Dorothy | another bucket of water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | Dorothy not said here | bucket | the mess | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over mess=Destination |
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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