The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 35
It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
Who acts: wife, Dorothy, woman · What happens: open, ask, eat, give · To what, where: door, bowl, good dinner, Quadlings
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Dorothy, woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | aux:pass |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farmer | det |
| 6 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 farmer | case |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 asked | advmod |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 something | case |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 asked | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 something | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eat | ccomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 dinner | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dinner | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dinner | amod |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kinds | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 kinds | case |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 kinds | nummod |
| 29 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dinner | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cake | case |
| 31 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kinds | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kinds | cc |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 kinds | nummod |
| 34 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dinner | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cookies | case |
| 36 | cookies | cookie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 kinds | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bowl | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bowl | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 bowl | det |
| 40 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 milk | case |
| 42 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bowl | nmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 Toto | case |
| 44 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 bowl | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · passive | the farmer's wife | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy | a bowl of milk for Toto | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the woman | all good dinner and three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies | Quadlings = quadling | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient dinner=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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