The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 1
For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days for the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and contented.
Who acts: Dorothy, friends · What happens: hear, be, content · To what, where: nothing, Oz., sad days
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, friends), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obl |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Oz. | case |
| 8 | Oz. | Oz. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 days | det |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 days | cop |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 24 happy | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 happy | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | cop |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 contented | cc |
| 26 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 happy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Dorothy | nothing | Oz. | day | for the little girl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic from oz.=Source | |
| 2 | is a | past | this sad days | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Dorothy's friends | all, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | content | participle | Dorothy's friends not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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