The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 1

The little old woman took the slate from her nose, and having read the words on it, asked, “Is your name Dorothy, my dear?”

Who acts: little old woman · What happens: take, have, read, ask, be · To what, where: slate, nose, words, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman), 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	4 woman	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slate	det
7	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 nose	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nose	nmod:poss
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 read	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 read	cc
13	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 read	reparandum
14	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 words	det
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 read	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 read	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 name	punct
23	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 name	cop
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 name	nmod:poss
25	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obj
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 name	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dear	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dear	nmod:poss
29	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 asked	parataxis
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 dear	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	the little old woman	the slate	woman's nose	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent slate=Theme from nose=Initial_Location
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	read	past	the little old woman not said here	the words	nose	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	past	the little old woman not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present		your name		tree rules

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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