The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 35
The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and to pass the night with them; for this was the home of one of the richest Munchkins in the land, and his friends were gathered with him to celebrate their freedom from the bondage of the Wicked Witch.
Who acts: people, Dorothy, this · What happens: greet, invite, supper, pass, be, gather · To what, where: Dorothy, friends, freedom, bondage
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 (people, Dorothy, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 greeted | nsubj |
| 3 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 greeted | obj |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 3 greeted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 invited | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 invited | cc |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 greeted | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 invited | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 supper | mark |
| 11 | supper | supper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 invited | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pass | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pass | mark |
| 14 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 supper | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pass | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pass | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 home | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 home | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 home | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 home | det |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 home | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Munchkins | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Munchkins | det |
| 29 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 Munchkins | amod |
| 30 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Munchkins | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gathered | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 gathered | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 friends | nmod:poss |
| 37 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 gathered | aux:pass |
| 39 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 greeted | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 gathered | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 celebrate | mark |
| 43 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 gathered | advcl |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 45 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 celebrate | obj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 bondage | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 bondage | det |
| 48 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 celebrate | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Witch | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Witch | det |
| 51 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Witch | amod |
| 52 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bondage | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | the people | Dorothy | kindly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | past | the people not said here | Dorothy | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | supper not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | night | with people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | this | for the home; of one of the richest Munchkins in the land | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | gather | past · passive | Kansas's friends | with Kansas | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with he=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | celebrate | to-infinitive | people's freedom | the bondage of the Wicked Witch | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=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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