The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 37
Toto jumped out of Dorothy’s arms and hid under the bed, and the girl started to get him.
Who acts: Toto, girl · What happens: jump out, hide, start, get · To what, where: arms, bed, Toto
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 (Toto, girl), 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 | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 5 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dorothy | case |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jumped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hid | cc |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 started | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 started | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | Toto | Dorothy's arms | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | Toto not said here | the bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | start | past | the girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | Toto | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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