The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 27
Dorothy at once ran back to the cottage and found the oil-can, and then she returned and asked anxiously, “Where are your joints?”
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: run back, find, return, ask, be · To what, where: cottage, joints · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ran | obl |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 cottage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 can | det |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 can | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 oil | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 returned | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 22 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 21 asked | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 joints | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 joints | punct |
| 25 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 joints | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 joints | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 joints | nmod:poss |
| 28 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 joints | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | Dorothy | the cottage | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Dorothy not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past | Dorothy | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Dorothy not said here | anxiously property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | your joints | tree rules |
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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