The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 6
Then she went back to the house, and having helped herself and Toto to a good drink of the cool, clear water, she set about making ready for the journey to the City of Emeralds.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: go back, have, help, set, make · To what, where: Dorothy
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 helped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 helped | cc |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 helped | nsubj |
| 11 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 helped | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Toto | cc |
| 14 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 herself | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 drink | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 drink | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drink | amod |
| 18 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helped | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 21 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 water | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cool | punct |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drink | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 28 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 29 making | mark |
| 29 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 set | advcl |
| 30 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 making | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 journey | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 journey | det |
| 33 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ready | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 City | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 City | det |
| 36 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 journey | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Emeralds | case |
| 38 | Emeralds | Emeralds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 City | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Dorothy | then | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | past | Dorothy | to a good drink of the cool clear water | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | set | past | Dorothy | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | Dorothy not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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