The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 51
“I can’t find Toto anywhere,” replied Dorothy, who did not wish to leave her little dog behind.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: not find, reply, not wish, leave · To what, where: Toto, little dog · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 find | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wish | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wish | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wish | advmod |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Dorothy | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 leave | mark |
| 18 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wish | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dog | nmod:poss |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dog | amod |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leave | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 18 leave | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find in a quote | can | Dorothy | Toto | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Topic | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Dorothy | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Dorothy's little dog | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/51/