The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 120
At first the Witch was tempted to run away from Dorothy; but she happened to look into the child’s eyes and saw how simple the soul behind them was, and that the little girl did not know of the wonderful power the Silver Shoes gave her.
Who acts: Witch, soul, little girl, Silver Shoes · What happens: tempt, run away, happen, look, see, be · To what, where: Witch, Dorothy · 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, soul, little girl, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 tempted | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 4 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tempted | aux:pass |
| 6 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tempted | xcomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Dorothy | case |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 happened | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 happened | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tempted | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 happened | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 child | case |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 look | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | conj |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 simple | advmod |
| 26 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soul | det |
| 28 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 simple | nsubj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 soul | nmod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 simple | cop |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 gave | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 gave | cc |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 know | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 girl | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 girl | amod |
| 37 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 know | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 know | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 know | advmod |
| 40 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 gave | advcl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 power | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 power | det |
| 43 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 power | amod |
| 44 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 know | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Shoes | det |
| 46 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Shoes | compound |
| 47 | Shoes | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 48 gave | nsubj |
| 48 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | conj |
| 49 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 gave | iobj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | past · passive | the Witch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run away | to-infinitive | Dorothy | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from dorothy=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | Witch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | into the child's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Witch not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the soul behind Shoes | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not know | past · do-support | the little girl | of the wonderful power | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of power=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | give | past | the Silver Shoes | Witch | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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