The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 9
The girl washed herself carefully, dressed herself in the clean gingham, and tied her pink sunbonnet on her head.
Who acts: girl · What happens: wash, dress, tie · To what, where: girl, clean gingham, pink sunbonnet
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 (girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 washed | nsubj |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 washed | obj |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 washed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dressed | punct |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 dressed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gingham | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gingham | det |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gingham | amod |
| 12 | gingham | gingham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dressed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tied | cc |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 washed | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sunbonnet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sunbonnet | amod |
| 18 | sunbonnet | sunbonnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | the girl | girl | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 2 | dress | past | the girl not said here | girl | the clean gingham | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | tie | past | the girl not said here | girl's pink sunbonnet | on girl's head | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sunbonnet=Patient on head=Co-Patient |
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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