The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 39

Dorothy thought she would go next; so she took Toto in her arms and climbed on the Lion’s back, holding tightly to his mane with one hand.

Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: think, go, take, climb, hold · To what, where: Toto, arms, mane · 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 (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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	next	next	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
11	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 arms	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 arms	nmod:poss
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 climbed	cc
16	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 ’s	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Lion	det
19	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 ’s	nsubj
20	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 climbed	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 ’s	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 holding	punct
23	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 climbed	advcl
24	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	27 mane	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mane	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mane	nmod:poss
27	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hand	nummod
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 holding	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Dorothy				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	would	Dorothy			next property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	Dorothy	Toto	Dorothy's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toto=Value in arm=Location
4	climb	past	Dorothy not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hold	gerund	Dorothy not said here	Lion's mane		with one hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mane=Theme

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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