The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 72

Dorothy could not see at all, but Toto could, for some dogs see very well in the dark; and the Scarecrow declared he could see as well as by day.

Who acts: Dorothy, dogs, Scarecrow, Toto · What happens: not see, see, declare · To what, where: all, dark · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dogs, Scarecrow, 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	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 could	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 could	cc
9	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 dogs	det
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 see	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dark	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dark	det
20	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 declared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 declared	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Scarecrow	det
24	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 declared	nsubj
25	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 declared	ccomp
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	28 see	advmod
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 as	fixed
31	as	as	ADP	_	29 as	fixed
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 day	case
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	Dorothy	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	present	some dogs	the dark		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	declare speech: other	past	the Scarecrow				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see	could	Toto		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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