The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 19
Dorothy looked at him in amazement, and so did the Scarecrow, while Toto barked sharply and made a snap at the tin legs, which hurt his teeth.
Who acts: Dorothy, Toto, tin legs · What happens: look, do, bark, make, hurt · To what, where: amazement, Scarecrow, snap, tin legs, teeth
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, Toto, tin legs), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 amazement | case |
| 6 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Scarecrow | det |
| 12 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 barked | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 barked | mark |
| 15 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 barked | nsubj |
| 16 | barked | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 16 barked | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 barked | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 snap | det |
| 21 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 legs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 legs | det |
| 24 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 legs | compound |
| 25 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hurt | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 hurt | nsubj |
| 28 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 legs | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 30 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hurt | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Dorothy | amazement | at man | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | Dorothy not said here | the Scarecrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bark | past | Toto | sharply property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Toto not said here | a snap | the tin legs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snap=Product | |||
| 5 | hurt | past | the tin legs | man's teeth | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=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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