The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 80
She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.
Who acts: old · What happens: reach down, pick up, shake, hand · To what, where: shoes, dust, 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 (old), 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 | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 reached | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 picked | cc |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reached | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoes | det |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 picked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 handed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 handed | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 shaking | mark |
| 12 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 handed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dust | det |
| 14 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaking | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shaking | obl |
| 18 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 handed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Dorothy | case |
| 21 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 handed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach down | past | old | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | old not said here | the shoes | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | the dust | out shoes = shoe | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hand | past | old not said here | shoes = shoe | Dorothy | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to dorothy=Destination |
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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