The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 7

Dorothy told the Witch all her story: how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.

Who acts: Dorothy, companions · What happens: tell, bring, find, meet · To what, where: story, Witch, cyclone, companions · 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 (Dorothy, companions), 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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Witch	det
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 story	det:predet
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 brought	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cyclone	det
11	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Land	det
17	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Oz	case
19	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Land	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 found	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 brought	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 companions	nmod:poss
26	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 found	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 met	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 met	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 adventures	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 adventures	det
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 adventures	amod
32	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 met	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 met	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 met	aux
35	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	35 met	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Dorothy	Dorothy's story	the Witch		tree rules
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		the cyclone		to the Land of Oz	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme she=Destination
3	find	past · perfect	Dorothy	Dorothy's companions			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Topic
4	meet	past · perfect	companions = companion			of the wonderful adventures	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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