The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, sentence 1
Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.
Who acts: Aunt, Dorothy · What happens: come out, look up, see, run · To what, where: Dorothy
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIV. Home Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt, Dorothy), 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 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 2 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Aunt | appos |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 water | mark |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cabbages | det |
| 13 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 house | nmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cabbages | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 looked | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | conj |
| 20 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 Dorothy | acl |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 running | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past · perfect | Aunt | of the house the cabbages; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look up | past | Aunt | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Aunt not said here | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dorothy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | Dorothy not said here | toward Aunt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=Trajectory |
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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