The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 41

As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.

Who acts: body, milkmaid · What happens: leave, cast, hold, nick · To what, where: cows, many reproachful glances, shoulder, nicked elbow

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, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 left	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 milkmaid	det
6	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	nsubj
7	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glances	amod
9	reproachful	reproachful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glances	amod
10	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cast	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 shoulder	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shoulder	nmod:poss
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 strangers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strangers	det
16	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 strangers	amod
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cast	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 holding	punct
19	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cast	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 elbow	nmod:poss
21	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 elbow	amod
22	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 holding	obj
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 holding	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 side	nmod:poss
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	body	cows = cow			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	cast	past	the milkmaid	many reproachful glances	body's shoulder	at the clumsy strangers	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme over shoulder=Destination
3	hold	gerund	the milkmaid not said here	body's nicked elbow		close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme
4	nick	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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