The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 20
So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.
Who acts: Witch, Dorothy · What happens: sit, happen, look around, see, lie · To what, where: door, Dorothy
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 (Witch, 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 | _ | 5 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 sat | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 castle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happened | xcomp |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 look | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | conj |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Dorothy | acl |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lying | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 friends | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 friends | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friends | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | conj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 her | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 friends | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Witch | the door of Witch's castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | Witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look around | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Witch not said here | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dorothy=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | Dorothy not said here | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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