The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 2
“Yes,” answered the child, looking up and drying her tears.
Who acts: child · What happens: answer, look up, dry · To what, where: tears
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 (child), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 answered | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 looking | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drying | cc |
| 12 | drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 looking | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drying | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the child | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | the child not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | dry | gerund | the child not said here | child's tears | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
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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