The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 80

Dorothy was puzzled at this, for it sounded queer to hear a stuffed man speak, and to see him bow and walk along beside her.

Who acts: it, stuffed man, Toto · What happens: puzzle, sound, hear, stuff, speak, see · To what, where: Dorothy, this, queer, Toto · 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 (it, stuffed man, 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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 puzzled	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puzzled	aux:pass
3	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 puzzled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sounded	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 sounded	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sounded	nsubj
9	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 puzzled	parataxis
10	queer	queer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounded	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hear	mark
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sounded	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speak	nsubj
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hear	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 puzzled	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 walk	cc
24	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 see	conj
25	along	along	ADV	_	24 walk	advmod
26	beside	beside	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 walk	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past · passive		Dorothy	this		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	sound	past	it	queer			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queer=Theme
3	hear	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	stuff	participle					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	infinitive	a stuffed man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive		Toto			tree rules
7	bow	infinitive	Toto not said here				vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	walk	infinitive				beside Dorothy; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Trajectory

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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