The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 26
Dorothy fell asleep only once, and then she dreamed she was in Kansas, where Aunt Em was telling her how glad she was to have her little girl at home again.
Who acts: Dorothy, Aunt · What happens: fall, dream, be, tell, have · To what, where: Kansas, Dorothy, little girl, home · 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 (Dorothy, Aunt), 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 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | xcomp |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 once | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 fell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreamed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dreamed | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 dreamed | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dreamed | nsubj |
| 10 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Kansas | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Kansas | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Kansas | case |
| 14 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dreamed | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 telling | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 telling | advmod |
| 17 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 telling | nsubj |
| 18 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Aunt | flat |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 telling | aux |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dreamed | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 telling | obj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 glad | advmod |
| 23 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 have | advcl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 telling | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 girl | nmod:poss |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 girl | amod |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obl |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 have | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Dorothy | asleep, once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dream | past | Dorothy | then | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Dorothy | Kansas | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | Aunt | Dorothy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Aunt | Aunt's little girl | home | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
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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