The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 22
And so, with Toto trotting along soberly behind her, she started on her journey.
Who acts: Toto, Dorothy · What happens: trot, start, journey · To what, where: journey
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 (Toto, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 trotting | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 trotting | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trotting | punct |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 6 trotting | mark |
| 5 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 trotting | nsubj |
| 6 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 started | advcl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 trotting | advmod |
| 8 | soberly | soberly | ADV | _ | 6 trotting | advmod |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trotting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trotting | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | gerund | Toto | behind Dorothy; along, soberly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | journey | Dorothy | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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