The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 56
This worried Dorothy a little, but she knew that only the Great Oz could help her get to Kansas again, so she bravely resolved not to turn back.
Who acts: worried Dorothy, Great Oz, Dorothy · What happens: know, help, get, resolve, not turn back · To what, where: Dorothy, Kansas
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 (worried Dorothy, Great Oz, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Dorothy | nsubj |
| 2 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dorothy | amod |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dorothy | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 Oz | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Oz | det |
| 13 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Oz | amod |
| 14 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Kansas | case |
| 20 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 get | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 resolved | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 resolved | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 resolved | nsubj |
| 25 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 26 resolved | advmod |
| 26 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | conj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 turn | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 turn | mark |
| 29 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 resolved | xcomp |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 turn | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | worried Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | help | could | the Great Oz | Dorothy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | Dorothy not said here | Kansas | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result | |||
| 4 | resolve | past | Dorothy | bravely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not turn back | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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