The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 49
She ate a hearty breakfast, and watched a wee Munchkin baby, who played with Toto and pulled his tail and crowed and laughed in a way that greatly amused Dorothy.
Who acts: Dorothy, wee Munchkin baby · What happens: eat, watch, play, pull, crow, laugh · To what, where: hearty breakfast, wee Munchkin baby, tail, way
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, wee Munchkin baby), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 breakfast | det |
| 4 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breakfast | compound |
| 5 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watched | cc |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 baby | det |
| 10 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 baby | amod |
| 11 | Munchkin | Munchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 baby | compound |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watched | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 played | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 played | nsubj |
| 15 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 baby | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Toto | case |
| 17 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 played | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pulled | cc |
| 19 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 played | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tail | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulled | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 crowed | cc |
| 23 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pulled | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughed | cc |
| 25 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 crowed | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laughed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 amused | obj |
| 30 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 31 amused | advmod |
| 31 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 way | acl:relcl |
| 32 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 amused | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Dorothy | a hearty breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | Dorothy not said here | a wee Munchkin baby | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | past | a wee Munchkin baby | with Toto | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with toto=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | pull | past | a wee Munchkin baby not said here | Toto's tail | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | crow | past | a wee Munchkin baby not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | laugh | past | a wee Munchkin baby not said here | in a way | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme | ||||
| 7 | amuse | past | a way | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer dorothy=Result |
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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