The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 1
Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: weep, get, think, be, not go up, pass · To what, where: passing, Kansas, hope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 2 wept | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 passing | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 passing | det |
| 6 | passing | passing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hope | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hope | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passing | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hope | acl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Kansas | case |
| 14 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 thought | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 thought | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | obj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 glad | advmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 glad | case |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 glad | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 glad | cop |
| 26 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gone | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 gone | advmod |
| 30 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 glad | acl:relcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 gone | compound:prt |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 balloon | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 balloon | det |
| 34 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gone | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Dorothy | the passing of Dorothy's hope | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Kansas | again | home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result | ||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Dorothy | hope | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Dorothy | all, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not go up | past · perfect | Dorothy | in a balloon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in balloon=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | pass | Dorothy's hope | nom passing «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | hope | Dorothy | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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