The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 1
When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.
Who acts: Dorothy, sun, Toto · What happens: awake, shine, chase · To what, where: trees, birds
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, sun, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shining | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shining | aux |
| 7 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 awoke | ccomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shining | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chasing | cc |
| 12 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 chasing | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 chasing | aux |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 chasing | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 chasing | aux |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 been | compound:prt |
| 17 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 awoke | conj |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chasing | obj |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 birds | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 squirrels | cc |
| 22 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 birds | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shine | past · progressive | the sun | the trees | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | chase | past · perfect · progressive | Toto | birds and squirrels | around sun; long property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme around he=Trajectory |
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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