The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 66
Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.
Who acts: Dorothy, Toto · What happens: climb down, walk up, run, bark · To what, where: fence, figure, pole
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, Toto), 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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 fence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walked | cc |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 walked | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 ran | mark |
| 15 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 pole | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pole | det |
| 19 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 barked | cc |
| 21 | barked | bark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ran | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past | Dorothy | the fence | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fence=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | walk up | past | Dorothy not said here | figure | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Toto | the pole | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around pole=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | bark | participle | Toto not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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