The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 40
Dorothy looked inside the Golden Cap and saw some words written upon the lining.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: look, see, write · To what, where: words
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), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 Cap | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cap | det |
| 5 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Cap | amod |
| 6 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 words | acl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 lining | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lining | det |
| 14 | lining | lining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 written | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dorothy | inside the Golden Cap | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside cap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Dorothy not said here | some words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | write | participle | some words not said here | upon the lining | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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