The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 152
She was not much hurt, but in her fall one of the Silver Shoes came off; and before she could reach it, the Witch had snatched it away and put it on her own skinny foot.
Who acts: Dorothy, Silver Shoes, Witch · What happens: not be, fall, come off, reach, snatch away, put · To what, where: one, floor, own skinny foot
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 (Dorothy, Silver Shoes, 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 | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fall | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fall | obl |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | parataxis |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 fall | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 came | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Shoes | det |
| 14 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Shoes | compound |
| 15 | Shoes | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 snatched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 snatched | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 reach | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 snatched | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reach | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reach | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Witch | det |
| 27 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 snatched | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 snatched | aux |
| 29 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fall | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 snatched | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 snatched | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 snatched | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 foot | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 foot | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 foot | amod |
| 38 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 foot | compound |
| 39 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Dorothy | hurt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | one | in Dorothy | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 3 | come off | past | the Silver Shoes | off property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | could | Dorothy | floor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | snatch away | past · perfect | the Witch | floor | away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 6 | put | infinitive | the Witch not said here | floor | Dorothy's own skinny foot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on foot=Destination |
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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