The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 1

The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far as the gate.

Who acts: Dorothy, they, green whiskers · What happens: kiss, shake, walk · To what, where: pretty green girl, hands

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, they, green whiskers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	obl:unmarked
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	nsubj
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kissed	obj
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 bye	punct
12	bye	bye	INTJ	_	10 good	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shook	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shook	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shook	nsubj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 shook	advmod
17	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kissed	conj
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shook	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 soldier	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soldier	det
21	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shook	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 whiskers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whiskers	det
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whiskers	amod
25	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shook	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walked	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 walked	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 walked	aux
29	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 whiskers	acl:relcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 walked	obl
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 walked	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 gate	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gate	det
36	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 far	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	Dorothy	the pretty green girl	morning		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
2	shake	past	they	hands		with the soldier; with the green whiskers	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soldier=Co-Patient
3	walk	past · perfect	the green whiskers			with whiskers = whisker; far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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