The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 40
She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs.
Who acts: body, poor animal · What happens: pick up, lead away, limp · To what, where: leg, cow, three legs
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 (body, poor animal), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leg | det |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 6 | sulkily | sulkily | ADV | _ | 2 picked | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 animal | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | parataxis |
| 16 | limping | limp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 animal | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 legs | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 legs | nummod |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 limping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | body | the leg | sulkily property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Topic | |||
| 2 | lead away | past | body not said here | body's cow | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | |||
| 3 | limp | gerund | the poor animal not said here | three legs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
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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