The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 4
Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.
Who acts: Uncle Henry, Dorothy · What happens: have, bed · To what, where: big bed, one corner, corner
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 (Uncle Henry, 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 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henry | compound |
| 2 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Aunt | cc |
| 4 | Aunt | Aunt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Henry | conj |
| 5 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Aunt | flat |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bed | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bed | amod |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 corner | nummod |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bed | cc |
| 15 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bed | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bed | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bed | amod |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 corner | det |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bed | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Uncle Henry and Aunt | a big bed | one corner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | |||
| 2 | bed | Dorothy | another corner | 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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