The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 7

At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy opened her basket and got out some bread.

Who acts: houses, Dorothy · What happens: sit down, open, get out · To what, where: basket, 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 (houses, Dorothy), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 roadside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roadside	det
8	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brook	punct
10	near	near	ADP	_	13 brook	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brook	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brook	amod
13	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 opened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 opened	cc
16	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 basket	nmod:poss
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 got	compound:prt
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 bread	det
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	houses = house		noon	by the roadside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location
2	open	past	Dorothy	country's basket			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme
3	get out	past	Dorothy not said here	some bread			tree rules

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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