The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 84
This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit.
Who acts: pleased Dorothy, Woodman · What happens: eat, make · To what, where: nothing, hearty meal
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 (pleased Dorothy, Woodman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Dorothy | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dorothy | amod |
| 3 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eaten | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 eaten | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eaten | aux |
| 7 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Dorothy | acl |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 eaten | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 nuts | cc |
| 10 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaten | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eaten | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 18 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meal | amod |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fruit | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fruit | det |
| 22 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fruit | amod |
| 23 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meal | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dorothy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | pleased Dorothy | nothing | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | Woodman | a hearty meal of the ripe fruit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |
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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