The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 20
It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.
Who acts: joy, Toto, Dorothy · What happens: be, make, laugh, save, grow · To what, where: Toto, Dorothy
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 (joy, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Toto | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Toto | cop |
| 3 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 laugh | nsubj |
| 7 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saved | cc |
| 10 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saved | obj |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 growing | mark |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 saved | advcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 gray | case |
| 15 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 growing | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 surroundings | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 surroundings | amod |
| 19 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 growing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | joy | Toto | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Toto | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | laugh | infinitive | Dorothy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | save | past | Toto not said here | Dorothy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | gerund | Toto not said here | as gray; as Dorothy's other surroundings | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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