The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 23

At the same time her own tears fell thick and fast at the joy of meeting her old friend again, and these tears did not need to be wiped away.

Who acts: own tears, joy, tears · What happens: be, meet, not need, wipe away · To what, where: joy, old friend

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 (own tears, joy, tears), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thick	obl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tears	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tears	amod
7	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thick	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thick	cop
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fast	cc
11	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thick	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 joy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 joy	det
14	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thick	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 meeting	mark
16	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 joy	acl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 friend	amod
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meeting	obj
20	again	again	ADV	_	16 meeting	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 need	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 need	cc
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 tears	det
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 need	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 need	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 need	advmod
27	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thick	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	30 wiped	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 wiped	aux:pass
30	wiped	wipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 need	xcomp
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 wiped	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	girl's own tears		the joy	time	thick property	tree rules
2	be		girl's own tears not said here					tree rules
3	meet	gerund	the joy not said here	girl's old friend		again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
4	not need	past · do-support	this tears					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	wipe away not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	this tears not said here				away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»

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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