The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 54

The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was.

Who acts: Silver Shoes, bye · What happens: take, stop, roll over, know, be · To what, where: three steps, grass · 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 (Silver Shoes, bye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shoes	det
2	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Shoes	compound
3	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 steps	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 steps	nummod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stopped	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stopped	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 suddenly	advmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 stopped	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 rolled	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rolled	nsubj
17	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stopped	advcl
18	over	over	ADV	_	17 rolled	advmod
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 grass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rolled	obl
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rolled	obl:unmarked
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 knew	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rolled	advcl
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 was	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 knew	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Silver Shoes	three steps				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
2	stop	past	bye			then	suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	roll over	past	bye		the grass	time	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Trajectory
4	know	past	bye					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	bye					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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