The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 162
“In a minute I shall melt away.”
Who acts: Witch · What happens: melt away
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 melt | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minute | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minute | det |
| 4 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melt | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 melt | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 melt | aux |
| 7 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 melt | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 melt | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt away in a quote | shall | Witch | minute | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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