The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 11

When she had finished her meal, and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick, she was startled to hear a deep groan near by.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: finish, be, go back, startle, hear · To what, where: meal, Dorothy, deep groan

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), 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	4 finished	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 meal	nmod:poss
6	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 about	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	cop
10	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 finished	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 about	xcomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 brick	case
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 brick	amod
19	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 road	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 startled	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 startled	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 startled	aux:pass
23	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 about	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 startled	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 groan	det
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 groan	amod
28	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hear	obj
29	near	near	ADV	_	25 hear	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	25 hear	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Dorothy	Dorothy's meal		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality
2	is	past			about property	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive			to the road of yellow brick result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result
4	startle	past · passive		Dorothy		tree rules
5	hear	to-infinitive		a deep groan	near property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus

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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