The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 22

When, at last, he walked into Dorothy’s room and thanked her for rescuing him, he was so pleased that he wept tears of joy, and Dorothy had to wipe every tear carefully from his face with her apron, so his joints would not be rusted.

Who acts: Woodman, Dorothy · What happens: walk, thank, rescue, be, weep, have · To what, where: room, girl, Woodman, tears, tear, face

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 last	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walked	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	parataxis
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 room	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Dorothy	case
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thanked	cc
13	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walked	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thanked	obj
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 rescuing	mark
16	rescuing	rescue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pleased	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rescuing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rescuing	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pleased	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 pleased	advmod
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thanked	ccomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 wept	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wept	nsubj
25	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pleased	advcl
26	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wept	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tears	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
31	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wept	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wipe	mark
34	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 tear	det
36	tear	tear	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wipe	obj
37	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	34 wipe	advmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 face	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 face	nmod:poss
40	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wipe	obl
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 apron	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 apron	nmod:poss
43	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wipe	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 rusted	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	51 rusted	advmod
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 joints	nmod:poss
47	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 rusted	nsubj:pass
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 rusted	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 rusted	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 rusted	aux:pass
51	rusted	rust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 walked	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Woodman				into Dorothy's room result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result
2	thank speech: thank	past	Woodman not said here		girl			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	rescue	gerund	Woodman not said here	Woodman				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	past	Woodman				pleased property	tree rules
5	weep	past	Woodman	tears of joy				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
6	have	past	Dorothy					tree rules
7	wipe	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	every tear		Woodman's face	with girl's apron; carefully property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from face=Trajectory
8	not rust	would · passive		Woodman's joints				tree rules

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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