The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 150
She placed a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor, and then by her magic arts made the iron invisible to human eyes.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: place, make · To what, where: bar, iron
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), 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 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bar | det |
| 4 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 iron | case |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bar | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 iron | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floor | compound |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 made | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 arts | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arts | amod |
| 20 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | obl |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 iron | det |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 26 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 invisible | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Witch | a bar of iron in the middle of the kitchen floor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Witch not said here | the iron | then | by Witch's magic arts; invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset iron=Product |
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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