The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 16
When it was daylight, the girl bathed her face in a little rippling brook, and soon after they all started toward the Emerald City.
Who acts: spark, girl, nuts · What happens: be, bath, start · To what, where: daylight, face, little rippling brook
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spark, girl, nuts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 daylight | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 daylight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daylight | cop |
| 4 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daylight | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | nsubj |
| 8 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 brook | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brook | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brook | amod |
| 14 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brook | compound |
| 15 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bathed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 started | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 started | advmod |
| 19 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 started | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 started | advmod |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bathed | conj |
| 23 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 26 City | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 City | det |
| 25 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 City | compound |
| 26 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 started | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | spark | daylight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bath | past | the girl | girl's face | a little rippling brook | tree rules | |||
| 3 | start | past | nuts = nut | toward the Emerald City; all, soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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