The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 1

While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the forest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk.

Who acts: Woodman, wood, Dorothy · What happens: make, find, lie down, sleep, be · To what, where: ladder, wood, forest

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, wood, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 making	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 making	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 making	aux
5	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ladder	det
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 found	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wood	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obl
16	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	parataxis
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 lay	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slept	cc
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lay	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tired	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 tired	case
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tired	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tired	cop
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 slept	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 walk	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 walk	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 walk	amod
29	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tired	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	the Woodman	a ladder	wood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent ladder=Product from wood=Material
2	find	past	wood		the forest		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	lie down	past	Dorothy			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sleep	past	Dorothy not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Dorothy			by the long walk; tired property	tree rules

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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