The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 3
She and Toto ate the last of their bread, and now she did not know what they would do for breakfast.
Who acts: Woodman, houses · What happens: eat, not know, do · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Woodman, houses), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Toto | cc |
| 3 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 last | det |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ate | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bread | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bread | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 last | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 know | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ate | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 know | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 breakfast | case |
| 22 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Woodman | the last | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | Woodman | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | would | houses = house | for breakfast | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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