The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 63
So Dorothy went first, holding Toto in her arms, the Tin Woodman followed, and the Scarecrow came next.
Who acts: Dorothy, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow · What happens: go, hold, follow, come · To what, where: Toto, arms
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, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 holding | punct |
| 6 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 7 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 holding | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holding | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Woodman | det |
| 13 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Woodman | compound |
| 14 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Scarecrow | det |
| 19 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | next | next | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dorothy | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Dorothy not said here | Toto | Dorothy's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toto=Theme in arm=Location | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the Tin Woodman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the Scarecrow | next property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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