The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 71
“I got them from the Wicked Witch of the East, when my house fell on her and killed her,” she replied.
Who acts: Oz, house · What happens: get, fall, kill, reply · To what, where: shoes, Oz · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, house), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 replied | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Witch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Witch | det |
| 7 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Witch | amod |
| 8 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 East | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 East | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Witch | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fell | advmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 replied | nsubj |
| 25 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | Oz | shoes = shoe | from the Wicked Witch of the East | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from witch=Source | |||
| 2 | fall in a quote | past | my house | on Oz | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | past | my house not said here | Oz | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Oz | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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