The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 146
But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath.
Who acts: child, girl · What happens: be, not take off, take · To what, where: pretty shoes, bath
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 (child, girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 proud | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proud | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proud | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 proud | advmod |
| 6 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shoes | amod |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 proud | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 took | advmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | except | except | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 night | case |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 took | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bath | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the child | of girl's pretty shoes; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not take off | past | girl | girl's pretty shoes | night | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | girl | girl's bath | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=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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