The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 49
She had such a frightened little voice that Dorothy stopped and said, “Why not?”
Who acts: girl, frightened little voice · What happens: have, stop, say · To what, where: frightened little voice · 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 (girl, frightened little voice), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 voice | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 voice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Why | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Why | punct |
| 15 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 said | conj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 Why | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | girl | such frightened little voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | such frightened little voice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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