The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 23
But Dorothy, knowing her to be a witch, had expected her to disappear in just that way, and was not surprised in the least.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: know, be, expect, disappear, not be · To what, where: straightway, witch, Dorothy, way, least · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 expected | cc |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dorothy | punct |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Dorothy | acl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 knowing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 witch | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 witch | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dorothy | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 expected | aux |
| 12 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 expected | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 disappear | mark |
| 15 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 expected | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disappear | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 surprised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 surprised | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 surprised | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 surprised | advmod |
| 24 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 expected | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 least | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 least | det |
| 27 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 surprised | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Dorothy not said here | straightway | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a witch | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | expect | past · perfect · passive | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | disappear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | that way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | the least | surprised property | 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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