The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 36
Oh, dear!” cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay.
What happens: cry, clasp · To what, where: hands, dismay
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: 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 dear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clasping | punct |
| 9 | clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 clasping | obj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 clasping | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dismay | case |
| 14 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clasping | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | clasp in a quote | gerund | foot's hands | dismay | together property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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