The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 60
Dorothy leaned her chin upon her hand and gazed thoughtfully at the Scarecrow.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: learn, gaze · To what, where: chin
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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | nsubj |
| 2 | leaned | learn | 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 chin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gazed | cc |
| 9 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | conj |
| 10 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 9 gazed | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Scarecrow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Scarecrow | det |
| 13 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's chin | upon Dorothy's hand | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Topic | |||
| 2 | gaze | past | Dorothy not said here | at the Scarecrow; thoughtfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scarecrow=Theme |
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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