The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 49
But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Who acts: child · What happens: hug, stuff, kiss, paint, find, cry · To what, where: soft stuffed body, arms, painted face, child, sorrowful parting · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 hugged | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hugged | nsubj |
| 3 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 body | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 soft | punct |
| 7 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 body | amod |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hugged | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Scarecrow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hugged | obl |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 kissing | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hugged | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kissing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hugged | conj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 crying | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 crying | aux |
| 26 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 found | ccomp |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 crying | obj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 parting | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 parting | det |
| 30 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 parting | amod |
| 31 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crying | obl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 comrades | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 34 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 comrades | amod |
| 35 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 parting | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hug | past | child | the soft stuffed body of the Scarecrow | child's arms | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | kiss | gerund | child not said here | Woodman's painted face | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | find | past | child not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | child | child | this sorrowful parting from child's loving comrades | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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