The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 1
All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: walk · To what, where: thick woods
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dorothy | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 walking | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companions | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Dorothy | conj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walking | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 walking | aux |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 13 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woods | amod |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | Dorothy all time and her companions | the thick woods | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory |
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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