The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 83

“And what became of them?” asked Dorothy, who had been greatly interested in the story.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: become, ask, be · To what, where: Dorothy, story · Speech: someone speaks here

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 became	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 became	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	advcl
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 interested	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 interested	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 interested	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 interested	cop
15	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	16 interested	advmod
16	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Dorothy	amod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 story	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 story	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 interested	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	past				of Monkeys = monkey	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past		Dorothy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient
3	is	past · perfect	Dorothy		the story	greatly, interested property	tree rules

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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