The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 16
She ran to the place and then stopped short, with a little cry of surprise.
Who acts: Dorothy, surprise · What happens: run, stop, cry
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, surprise), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stopped | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stopped | advmod |
| 8 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stopped | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cry | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cry | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cry | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cry | amod |
| 14 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stopped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 surprise | case |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cry | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Dorothy | to the place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Dorothy not said here | then | with a little cry of surprise; short property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with cry=Location | |||
| 3 | cry | surprise | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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