The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 39
Dorothy was ready to cry with disappointment.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, cry
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 | 3 ready | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ready | cop |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cry | mark |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ready | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 disappointment | case |
| 7 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dorothy | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | with disappointment | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with disappointment=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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