The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 46

Dorothy did not know what to say to this, for all the people seemed to think her a witch, and she knew very well she was only an ordinary little girl who had come by the chance of a cyclone into a strange land.

Who acts: Dorothy, people, Witch, ordinary little girl, cyclone · What happens: not know, say, seem, think, know, be · To what, where: this, Dorothy, ordinary little girl, strange land · 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, Witch, ordinary little girl), 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	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seemed	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 seemed	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 people	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 think	mark
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 seemed	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 think	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 witch	det
20	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 think	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knew	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seemed	conj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 well	advmod
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 knew	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 girl	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 girl	cop
29	only	only	ADV	_	33 girl	advmod
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 girl	det
31	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 girl	amod
33	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knew	ccomp
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 come	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 girl	acl:relcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 chance	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chance	det
39	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 cyclone	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cyclone	det
42	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 chance	nmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	46 land	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 land	det
45	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 land	amod
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 come	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Dorothy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to this=Recipient
3	seem	past	all people					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	all people not said here	Dorothy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme witch=Attribute
5	know	past	Witch				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	Witch	a ordinary little girl				tree rules
7	come	past · perfect	a ordinary little girl			a strange land	by the chance of a cyclone	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
8	chance		a cyclone					nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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