The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 53
Then he hopped down at my feet and ate all the corn he wanted.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: hop down, eat, want · To what, where: feet, corn
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 (farmer), 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 hopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 hopped | compound:prt |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hopped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ate | cc |
| 9 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopped | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 corn | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corn | det |
| 12 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ate | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 corn | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop down | past | farmer | my feet | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | eat | past | farmer not said here | all corn | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want | past | farmer | all corn not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot corn=Theme |
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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