The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 9

They left the cottage and walked through the trees until they found a little spring of clear water, where Dorothy drank and bathed and ate her breakfast.

Who acts: brains, Dorothy · What happens: leave, walk, find, drink, bath, eat · To what, where: cottage, trees, breakfast

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 (brains, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 left	conj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walked	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 found	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spring	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spring	amod
15	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spring	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drank	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 drank	advmod
21	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 drank	nsubj
22	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 water	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bathed	cc
24	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 drank	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ate	cc
26	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bathed	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 breakfast	nmod:poss
28	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ate	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past	brains = brain	the cottage			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	walk	past	brains = brain not said here		the trees		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory
3	find	past	brains = brain			spring	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	drink	past	Dorothy				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bath	past	Dorothy not said here				tree rules
6	eat	past	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy's breakfast			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=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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