The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 57
She bade her friends good-bye, and again started along the road of yellow brick.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: bade, start · To what, where: friends
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bade | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bye | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 5 good | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 started | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 started | advmod |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bade | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 started | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brick | case |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brick | amod |
| 17 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 road | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's friends | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | past | Dorothy not said here | again | along the road of yellow brick | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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