The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 15

The ribbon around Toto’s neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy’s dress.

What happens: lose, be · To what, where: ribbon

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ribbon	det
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	nsubj:pass
3	around	around	ADP	_	6 neck	case
4	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 neck	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 Toto	case
6	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ribbon	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 color	nmod:poss
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 color	amod
12	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 white	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 white	advmod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lost	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 dress	case
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 dress	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Dorothy	case
20	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 white	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect · passive		the ribbon around Toto's neck					tree rules
2	is	past						as Dorothy's dress; white property	tree rules

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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