The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 106
Here he mewed so like a kitten that Toto pricked up his ears and looked everywhere to see where she was.
Who acts: Beast, Toto · What happens: mew, prick up, look, see, be · To what, where: ears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beast, Toto), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mewed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mewed | nsubj |
| 3 | mewed | mew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 mewed | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 kitten | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kitten | det |
| 7 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mewed | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pricked | mark |
| 9 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pricked | nsubj |
| 10 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mewed | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pricked | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pricked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pricked | conj |
| 16 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 looked | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 looked | advcl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 was | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 was | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mew | past | Beast | here | like a kitten | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | prick up | past | Toto | Beast's ears | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Toto not said here | everywhere property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Toto not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | Toto | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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