The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, sentence 2

“My darling child!” she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses.

Who acts: darling child · What happens: cry, fold, cover · To what, where: little girl, arms, face

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 (darling 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 child	nmod:poss
3	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 child	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 folding	punct
10	folding	fold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 folding	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 folding	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 covering	cc
18	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 folding	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covering	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 kisses	case
22	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 covering	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	My darling child				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fold	gerund	My darling child not said here	the little girl	child's arms		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
3	cover	gerund	My darling child not said here	child's face		with kisses	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with kiss=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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