The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 101
What worried her most was that the bread was nearly gone, and another meal for herself and Toto would empty the basket.
Who acts: most, meal · What happens: worry, be, empty · To what, where: basket
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 (most, meal), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 worried | nsubj |
| 2 | worried | worry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nmod:poss |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bread | det |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | cop |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 gone | advmod |
| 11 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 worried | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 empty | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 empty | cc |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 meal | det |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 empty | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 herself | case |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 meal | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Toto | cc |
| 19 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 empty | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 empty | aux |
| 21 | empty | empty | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 worried | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 basket | det |
| 23 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 empty | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | worry | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | most | gone, nearly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | empty | would | another meal for Woodman | the basket | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent basket=Source |
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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