The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 50
Toto was a fine curiosity to all the people, for they had never seen a dog before.
Who acts: Toto, people · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: fine curiosity, dog
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 (Toto, people), 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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 curiosity | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 curiosity | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 curiosity | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curiosity | amod |
| 5 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curiosity | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 curiosity | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 seen | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 curiosity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Toto | a fine curiosity | to all people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | people | a dog | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus |
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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