The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 1

Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.

Who acts: Dorothy, Uncle Henry, Aunt · What happens: live, be · To what, where: Aunt, midst, farmer, wife

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Uncle Henry, 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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 midst	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 midst	det
5	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 prairies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prairies	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prairies	amod
9	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prairies	compound
10	prairies	prairie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 midst	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Henry	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Henry	case
13	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Henry	compound
14	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 prairies	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 farmer	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 farmer	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 farmer	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 farmer	det
19	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Henry	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Aunt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Aunt	cc
22	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
23	Em	Em	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Aunt	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wife	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 wife	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wife	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 farmer	det
28	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wife	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 farmer	case
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Aunt	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past	Dorothy	Aunt	the midst of the great Kansas prairies with Uncle Henry	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
2	is a	past	Uncle Henry	a farmer		tree rules
3	is a	past	Aunt	the farmer's wife		tree rules

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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