The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 48
The sheets were made of blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the blue rug beside her.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: make, sleep, curl up · To what, where: sheets, Toto, blue rug
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sheets | det |
| 2 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cloth | case |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cloth | amod |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slept | cc |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | nsubj |
| 11 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 12 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 11 slept | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slept | obl |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slept | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 curled | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 curled | mark |
| 19 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 curled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 curled | compound:prt |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 rug | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rug | det |
| 24 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rug | amod |
| 25 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 curled | obl |
| 26 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rug | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the sheets | of blue cloth | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | Dorothy | morning | in sheets = sheet; soundly property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location | |||
| 3 | curl up | participle · passive | Toto | the blue rug beside Dorothy | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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