The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 47
She threw her arms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly.
Who acts: child · What happens: throw, kiss, pat · To what, where: arms, neck, Lion, big head
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 (child), 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 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lion | case |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissed | cc |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 threw | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kissed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 patting | punct |
| 14 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kissed | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 patting | obj |
| 18 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 14 patting | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | child | child's arms | the Lion's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | child not said here | Lion | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | pat | gerund | child not said here | Lion's big head | tenderly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer |
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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