The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 65

She thought she must have been mistaken at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way.

Who acts: Dorothy, Kansas, figure · What happens: think, mistake, wink, nod · To what, where: Dorothy, head, friendly way · 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, Kansas, figure), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mistaken	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mistaken	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 mistaken	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 mistaken	aux:pass
7	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 first	case
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 mistaken	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 none	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 none	case
12	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 mistaken	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 scarecrows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 scarecrows	det
15	scarecrows	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 none	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Kansas	case
17	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 scarecrows	nmod
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 wink	advmod
19	wink	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Kansas	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 nodded	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 nodded	cc
22	presently	presently	ADV	_	25 nodded	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 figure	det
24	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nodded	nsubj
25	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nodded	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 nodded	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 way	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
32	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nodded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Dorothy						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	mistake	must · perfect · passive		Dorothy					tree rules
3	wink	present	Kansas not said here				ever		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	nod	past	the figure	figure's head	Dorothy	a friendly way		presently property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Theme to she=Recipient

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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