The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 23
Dorothy blew the little whistle she had always carried about her neck since the Queen of the Mice had given it to her.
Who acts: Dorothy, Lion, Queen · What happens: blow, carry, give · To what, where: little whistle, whistle, Lion
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Lion, Queen), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whistle | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whistle | amod |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blew | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carried | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 carried | advmod |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 blew | parataxis |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 given | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mice | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mice | det |
| 18 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Queen | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 carried | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Dorothy | the little whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect | Lion | about Lion's neck; always property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | the Queen of the Mice | whistle | Lion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient |
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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