The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 93
“You killed the Witch of the East and you wear the silver shoes, which bear a powerful charm.
Who acts: You, silver shoes · What happens: kill, wear, bear · To what, where: Witch, silver shoes, powerful charm
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 (You, silver shoes), 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 killed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Witch | det |
| 5 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 East | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 East | det |
| 8 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Witch | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wear | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wear | nsubj |
| 11 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shoes | compound |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wear | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bear | nsubj |
| 17 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 charm | det |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 charm | amod |
| 20 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | You | the Witch of the East | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wear in a quote | present | you | the silver shoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | present | the silver shoes | a powerful charm | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient |
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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