The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 119

She looked down at Dorothy’s feet, and seeing the Silver Shoes, began to tremble with fear, for she knew what a powerful charm belonged to them.

Who acts: Witch, powerful charm · What happens: look down, see, begin, tremble, know, belong · To what, where: Silver Shoes, Shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, powerful charm), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 feet	case
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 feet	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Dorothy	case
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 began	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Shoes	det
12	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Shoes	compound
13	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 seeing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeing	punct
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tremble	mark
17	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tremble	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knew	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 knew	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	parataxis
24	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	27 charm	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 charm	det
26	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 charm	amod
27	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 belonged	nsubj
28	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 belonged	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look down	past	Witch			at Dorothy's feet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme
2	see	gerund		the Silver Shoes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus
3	begin	past	Witch not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tremble	to-infinitive	Witch not said here			with fear	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	Witch				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	belong	past	what powerful charm		Shoes = shoe		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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