The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 45
Dorothy went on, standing this time on her right foot.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: go on, stand · To what, where: right foot
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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foot | amod |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Dorothy | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Dorothy not said here | Cap's right foot | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location |
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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