The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 37
She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.
Who acts: girl, wolves · What happens: thank, save, sit down, start, journey · To what, where: man, wolves
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, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:911): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 saving | mark |
| 5 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 thanked | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saving | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 breakfast | case |
| 11 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 started | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 breakfast | acl:relcl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 started | advmod |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | girl | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | gerund | girl not said here | wolves = wolf | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | girl not said here | to breakfast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | start | past | wolves = wolf | after breakfast; again | upon wolves's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | journey | wolves = wolf | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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