The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 14

Then Toto came up, and immediately began to bark, but Dorothy made him be still.

Who acts: Toto, Dorothy · What happens: come up, begin, bark, make, be · To what, where: Toto

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 (Toto, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	8 began	advmod
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bark	mark
10	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 be	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Toto		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	Toto not said here			immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bark	to-infinitive	Toto not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	Dorothy	Toto			tree rules
5	be	infinitive	Toto not said here		still		vn exist-47.1 «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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