The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 15
They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees.
Who acts: ears, Dorothy, sunshine · What happens: turn, walk, discover, shine, fall, ray · To what, where: few steps, forest, something, ray, trees, sunshine
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 (ears, Dorothy, sunshine), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 steps | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 steps | amod |
| 10 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discovered | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 discovered | advmod |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | nsubj |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 steps | acl:relcl |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 discovered | obj |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 something | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ray | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ray | det |
| 19 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shining | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sunshine | case |
| 21 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ray | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sunshine | acl:relcl |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 26 trees | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 trees | det |
| 26 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | ears = ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | ears = ear not said here | a few steps | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme through forest=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | discover | past | Dorothy | something | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | a ray of sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | sunshine | the trees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between tree=Location | ||||
| 6 | ray | sunshine | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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