The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 138
Once the Witch struck Toto a blow with her umbrella and the brave little dog flew at her and bit her leg in return.
Who acts: Witch, brave little dog · What happens: strike, fly, bite · To what, where: Toto, leg, return
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, brave little dog), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 struck | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 3 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 umbrella | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 umbrella | nmod:poss |
| 10 | umbrella | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blow | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dog | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dog | amod |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 struck | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bit | cc |
| 20 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 leg | nmod:poss |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bit | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 return | case |
| 24 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bit | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the Witch | Toto | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent toto=Patient blow=Result | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the brave little dog | at Witch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at she=Location | ||||
| 3 | bite | past | the brave little dog not said here | Witch's leg | return | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Patient in return=Location |
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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