The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 64
While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her.
Who acts: Dorothy, one · What happens: look, paint, be, see, wink · To what, where: one
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, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:234): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 looking | mark |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 surprised | advcl |
| 5 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 4 looking | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 8 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 painted | punct |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Scarecrow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Scarecrow | det |
| 14 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 face | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 surprised | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surprised | cop |
| 18 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 surprised | xcomp |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 eyes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eyes | det |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 26 wink | advmod |
| 26 | wink | wink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wink | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | Dorothy | into the queer painted face of the Scarecrow; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Dorothy | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | one of the eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wink | infinitive | one of the eyes not said here | at Dorothy; slowly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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