The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 52
Toto had run into the crowd to bark at a kitten, and Dorothy at last found him.
Who acts: Toto, Dorothy · What happens: run, bark, find · To what, where: crowd, Toto
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 (Toto, 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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 crowd | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowd | det |
| 6 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 run | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bark | mark |
| 8 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 kitten | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kitten | det |
| 11 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bark | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 14 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Dorothy | nmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | Toto | into the crowd result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into crowd=Result | ||||
| 2 | bark | to-infinitive | Toto not said here | at a kitten | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at kitten=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Dorothy at last | Toto | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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