The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 10
Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread.
Who acts: Dorothy, this, straw · What happens: see, be, nod, go, eat · To what, where: bread
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, this, straw), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 saw | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 true | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 true | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nodded | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 nodded | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nodded | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 nodded | advmod |
| 13 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nodded | conj |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 eating | mark |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bread | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eating | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | straw | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | straw not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | straw not said here | straw's bread | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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