The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 1
She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy had not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt.
Who acts: shock, Dorothy · What happens: awaken, not lie, hurt · To what, where: She, soft bed, Dorothy
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shock, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 shock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shock | det |
| 6 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sudden | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 sudden | advmod |
| 9 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 awakened | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 severe | cc |
| 11 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sudden | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lying | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 lying | mark |
| 14 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lying | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lying | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 lying | aux |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 severe | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bed | det |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bed | amod |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lying | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hurt | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 hurt | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hurt | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 hurt | aux:pass |
| 27 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 lying | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a shock | She | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not lie | past · perfect · progressive | Dorothy | the soft bed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | might · perfect · passive | Dorothy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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