The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 32

Toward evening, when Dorothy was tired with her long walk and began to wonder where she should pass the night, she came to a house rather larger than the rest.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, begin, wonder, pass, come, walk · To what, where: house · 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), 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	Toward	toward	ADP	_	2 evening	case
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tired	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 walk	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 walk	nmod:poss
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walk	amod
11	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tired	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wonder	mark
15	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 pass	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pass	aux
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wonder	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pass	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	29 larger	advmod
29	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 house	amod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 rest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 larger	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dorothy		evening	with Dorothy's long walk; tired property	tree rules
2	begin	past	Dorothy not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	wonder speech: ask	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pass	should	Dorothy		night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	Dorothy	a house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
6	walk		Dorothy				nom walk «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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