The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 17
Where her lips touched the girl they left a round, shining mark, as Dorothy found out soon after.
Who acts: lips, Dorothy · What happens: touch, leave, shine, find out · To what, where: girl, shining mark
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 (lips, Dorothy), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 touched | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touched | nsubj |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mark | det |
| 10 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shining | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 round | punct |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 mark | amod |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 16 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 found | compound:prt |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 found | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 soon | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | girl's lips | the girl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme girl=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | lips = lip | a shining mark | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | find out | past | Dorothy | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=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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