The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 58

When she had gone several miles she thought she would stop to rest, and so climbed to the top of the fence beside the road and sat down.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: go, think, stop, rest, climb, sit down · To what, where: several miles, road · Speech: someone speaks here

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 thought	advcl
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 miles	amod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 thought	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 rest	mark
13	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stop	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 climbed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbed	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 climbed	advmod
17	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 fence	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fence	det
23	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 top	nmod
24	beside	beside	ADP	_	26 road	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 climbed	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 sat	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Dorothy	several miles			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Dorothy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	stop	would	Dorothy				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rest	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	climb	past			the road	to the top of the fence	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination
6	sit down	past					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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