The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 32

Dorothy was shocked to see that the cow had broken her leg off, and that the pail was lying in several small pieces, while the poor milkmaid had a nick in her left elbow.

Who acts: Dorothy, pail, poor milkmaid · What happens: be, see, break off, lie, have · To what, where: cow, several small pieces, nick, left elbow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dorothy, pail, poor milkmaid), 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 shocked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shocked	cop
3	shocked	shocked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shocked	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	ccomp
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 leg	nmod:poss
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	10 broken	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lying	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lying	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 lying	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pail	det
18	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 broken	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pieces	amod
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pieces	amod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 milkmaid	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 milkmaid	amod
29	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 nick	det
32	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 elbow	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 elbow	nmod:poss
35	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 elbow	amod
36	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 nick	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dorothy			shocked property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	break off	past · perfect · passive		the cow			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient leg=Result
4	lie	past · progressive	the pail		several small pieces		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in piece=Location
5	have	past	the poor milkmaid	a nick	pail's left elbow		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nick=Patient

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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