The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 55
Dorothy was thinking so earnestly as they walked along that she did not notice when the Scarecrow stumbled into a hole and rolled over to the side of the road.
Who acts: Dorothy, travelers, Scarecrow · What happens: think, walk, not notice, stumble, roll over · To what, where: hole, side · 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, travelers, Scarecrow), 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 | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 earnestly | advmod |
| 5 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 walked | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | parataxis |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 notice | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 notice | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 notice | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 notice | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 notice | advmod |
| 14 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 walked | advcl |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 stumbled | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Scarecrow | det |
| 17 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 stumbled | nsubj |
| 18 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 notice | ccomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hole | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hole | det |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stumbled | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rolled | cc |
| 23 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | conj |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 23 rolled | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rolled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 road | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 road | det |
| 30 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Dorothy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | travelers = traveler | earnestly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past · do-support | Dorothy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stumble | past | the Scarecrow | a hole | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | ||||
| 5 | roll over | past | travelers = traveler not said here | the side of the road | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination |
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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