The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 7
Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
Who acts: Dorothy, that · What happens: have, happen, be, hang · To what, where: one other dress, peg
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, that), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 dress | nummod |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dress | amod |
| 6 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 happened | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 clean | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 clean | cop |
| 13 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happened | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hanging | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hanging | aux |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 happened | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 peg | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 peg | det |
| 19 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | obl |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 peg | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Dorothy | one other dress | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | that not said here | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hang | past · progressive | that not said here | a peg beside Dorothy's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peg=Location |
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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