The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 33
Now that they were reunited, Dorothy and her friends spent a few happy days at the Yellow Castle, where they found everything they needed to make them comfortable.
Who acts: Dorothy, clothes · What happens: reunite, spend, find, need, make · To what, where: clothes, Yellow Castle, everything
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 (Dorothy, clothes), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 spent | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 reunited | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reunited | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reunited | aux:pass |
| 5 | reunited | reunite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 spent | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reunited | punct |
| 7 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spent | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 friends | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Dorothy | conj |
| 11 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spent | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Castle | det |
| 18 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Castle | amod |
| 19 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spent | conj |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 needed | nsubj |
| 26 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 everything | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 needed | xcomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reunite | past · passive | clothes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | spend | past | Dorothy and tree's friends | the Yellow Castle | now; day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | find | past | clothes | everything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | need | past | clothes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | clothes not said here | clothes | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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