The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 36

Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq.

Who acts: Dorothy, name, Boq · What happens: eat, wait, be, name · To what, where: hearty supper, rich Munchkin, Boq

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, name, Boq), 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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 supper	det
4	hearty	hearty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 supper	compound
5	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waited	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	aux:pass
8	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ate	conj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Munchkin	case
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 Munchkin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Munchkin	det
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Munchkin	amod
13	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 Munchkin	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Boq	punct
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Boq	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Boq	cop
19	Boq	Boq	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Munchkin	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past	Dorothy	a hearty supper		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
2	wait	past · passive	Dorothy not said here		the rich Munchkin Kansas and Boq	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: upon munchkin=Location
3	is a	past	Boq's name	Boq		tree rules
4	name		Boq			nom name «communication 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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