The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 5
The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.
Who acts: little girl, eyes, Dorothy, amazement · What happens: give, look, grow, see, cry · To what, where: cry, wonderful sights
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 (little girl, eyes, Dorothy, amazement), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cry | det |
| 6 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 amazement | case |
| 8 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cry | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 growing | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 growing | nsubj |
| 16 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | advcl |
| 17 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 growing | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bigger | cc |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 bigger | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 sights | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sights | det |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sights | amod |
| 23 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bigger | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sights | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the little girl | a cry of amazement | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the little girl not said here | about Dorothy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | Dorothy's eyes | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Dorothy | the wonderful sights not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cry | amazement | 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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