The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 42
“My dress is blue and white checked,” said Dorothy, smoothing out the wrinkles in it.
Who acts: dress, Dorothy · What happens: be, check, say, smooth out · To what, where: wrinkles, dress · 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 (dress, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 dress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blue | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blue | cop |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 white | cc |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blue | conj |
| 8 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 white | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 blue | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smoothing | punct |
| 14 | smoothing | smooth | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 smoothing | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wrinkles | det |
| 17 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 smoothing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smoothing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My dress | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | My dress not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | check in a quote | participle | My dress not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | smooth out | gerund | Dorothy not said here | the wrinkles | dress | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrinkle=Patient |
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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