The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 7
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: stand, look around, see · To what, where: doorway, nothing, side
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 doorway | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doorway | det |
| 6 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 see | aux |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stood | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 prairie | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prairie | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prairie | amod |
| 18 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prairie | amod |
| 19 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Dorothy | the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 2 | look around | past | Dorothy not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | could | Dorothy | nothing | every side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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