The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 16
She came close to Dorothy and kissed her gently on the forehead.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, kiss · To what, where: Dorothy, girl, forehead
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 (girl), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Dorothy | case |
| 5 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kissed | cc |
| 7 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kissed | obj |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 7 kissed | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 forehead | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forehead | det |
| 12 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kissed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | girl | Dorothy | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dorothy=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | girl not said here | girl | the forehead | gently property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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