The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 22
The Witch gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her left heel three times, and straightway disappeared, much to the surprise of little Toto, who barked after her loudly enough when she had gone, because he had been afraid even to growl while she stood by.
Who acts: Witch, straightway, surprise, Dorothy · What happens: give, whirl around, disappear, bark, go, be · To what, where: friendly little nod, Dorothy, left heel, little Toto
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 (Witch, straightway, surprise, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Witch | det |
| 2 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nod | det |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nod | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nod | amod |
| 8 | nod | nod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whirled | punct |
| 10 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 nod | acl |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 whirled | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 heel | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heel | amod |
| 15 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whirled | obl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 times | nummod |
| 17 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 disappeared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 disappeared | cc |
| 20 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 surprise | punct |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 surprise | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 surprise | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 surprise | det |
| 26 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 disappeared | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Toto | case |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Toto | amod |
| 29 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 surprise | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 barked | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 barked | nsubj |
| 32 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 surprise | conj |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 barked | obl |
| 35 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 32 barked | advmod |
| 36 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 35 loudly | advmod |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 gone | advmod |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gone | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 gone | aux |
| 40 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 disappeared | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 afraid | punct |
| 42 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 afraid | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 afraid | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 afraid | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 afraid | cop |
| 46 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 gone | advcl |
| 47 | even | even | ADV | _ | 49 growl | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 growl | mark |
| 49 | growl | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 afraid | ccomp |
| 50 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 52 stood | mark |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 stood | nsubj |
| 52 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 growl | advcl |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 stood | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Witch | a friendly little nod | Dorothy | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient nod=Theme | ||
| 2 | whirl around | participle | a friendly little nod not said here | Witch's left heel | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | straightway | to the surprise of little Toto | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bark | past | the surprise of little Toto | after Witch | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | go | past · perfect | straightway | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | Dorothy | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | growl | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | stand by | past | straightway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | surprise | little Toto | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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