The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 24
Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
Who acts: Dorothy, silver shoes · What happens: walk, tinkle · To what, where: short time, Emerald City, hard yellow road bed
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, silver shoes), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tinkling | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 7 walking | advmod |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 City | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 City | det |
| 11 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | compound |
| 12 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoes | compound |
| 16 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tinkling | nsubj |
| 17 | tinkling | tinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 17 tinkling | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bed | det |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bed | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hard | punct |
| 23 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bed | amod |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bed | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 road | punct |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tinkling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tinkling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Dorothy | a short time not said here | the Emerald City | briskly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent time=Theme toward city=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | tinkle | gerund | Dorothy's silver shoes | the hard yellow road bed | time | merrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location |
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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