The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 26
Then the Witch looked at the big, shaggy Lion and asked, “When Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will become of you?”
Who acts: Witch, Dorothy, own home · What happens: look, ask, return, become · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, Dorothy, own home), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 3 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Lion | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lion | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 big | punct |
| 9 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lion | amod |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 15 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 returned | advmod |
| 16 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | aux |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 home | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 home | amod |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 become | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 become | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 become | aux |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 home | acl:relcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 become | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Witch | then | at the big shaggy Lion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lion=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Witch not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | present · perfect | Dorothy | to Dorothy's own home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | future | Dorothy's own home | of you | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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