The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 29
Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage.
Who acts: Dorothy, people · What happens: pass, come out, look, bow, go by, know · To what, where: house, Wicked Witch, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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, people), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 pass | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pass | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | aux |
| 7 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pass | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 look | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bow | cc |
| 21 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 look | conj |
| 22 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bow | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 went | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 low | ccomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 went | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 knew | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 everyone | case |
| 29 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 knew | obl |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pass | parataxis |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 means | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 means | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 means | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 means | nsubj |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 knew | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 destroying | mark |
| 37 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 means | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Witch | det |
| 39 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Witch | amod |
| 40 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 destroying | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 setting | cc |
| 42 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 destroying | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 setting | obj |
| 44 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 setting | xcomp |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 bondage | case |
| 46 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 free | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | would | Dorothy | a house | while | once property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | come out | past | the people | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the people not said here | at Dorothy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bow | present | the people not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go by | past | Dorothy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know | past | for everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | Dorothy | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | destroy | gerund | Dorothy not said here | the Wicked Witch | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient | ||||
| 9 | set | gerund | Dorothy not said here | people | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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