The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 33
Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright.
Who acts: Dorothy, fright · What happens: look, give, cry · To what, where: little cry
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 (Dorothy, fright), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cry | amod |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fright | case |
| 10 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dorothy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Dorothy not said here | a little cry of fright | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry | fright | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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