The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 49

He ran about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen.

Who acts: Toto, Dorothy · What happens: run, bark, sit, wait, see, happen · To what, where: floor · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 here	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 ran	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 here	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 barking	punct
13	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
14	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	13 barking	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
17	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 still	advmod
20	still	still	ADV	_	18 sat	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waited	cc
25	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 waited	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 happen	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 happen	aux
30	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Toto			about the room	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
2	bark	gerund	Toto not said here			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	Dorothy	the floor	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
4	wait	past	Dorothy not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «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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