The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 24
Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him.
Who acts: Oz, Dorothy · What happens: not keep, make, do, forgive · To what, where: Oz, Dorothy, best
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 (Oz, 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 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 promise | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 best | nmod:poss |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 done | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgave | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 forgave | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgave | nsubj |
| 20 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | past · perfect · passive | Oz | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme promise=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Oz | Dorothy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Oz | Oz's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forgive | past | Dorothy | Oz | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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