The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 44
A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.
Who acts: dressed young Princess, Dorothy · What happens: meet, dress, stop, see, start, run away · To what, where: dressed young Princess, Dorothy, strangers
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 (dressed young Princess, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farther | obl |
| 3 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 met | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Dorothy | case |
| 5 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 beautifully | advmod |
| 9 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 10 dressed | advmod |
| 10 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Princess | amod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princess | amod |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stopped | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strangers | det |
| 21 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 started | cc |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 started | xcomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 run | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a dressed young Princess | Dorothy | far property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | beautifully property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | past | a dressed young Princess | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Dorothy | the strangers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | start | past | Dorothy not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | run away | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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