The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 2
So she went to the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with butter.
Who acts: Dorothy, bread · What happens: go, cut, spread · To what, where: cupboard, Dorothy
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, bread), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cupboard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cupboard | det |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cut | cc |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 cut | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bread | det |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spread | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 spread | nsubj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spread | nsubj |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bread | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 butter | case |
| 17 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dorothy | the cupboard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Dorothy not said here | Dorothy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary bread=Product | ||||
| 3 | spread | past | some bread | with butter | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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