The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 163
“I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes.
Who acts: Dorothy · What happens: be, say, frighten, see, melt away · To what, where: Dorothy, Witch · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 ’m | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frightened | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 frightened | aux:pass |
| 15 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 16 frightened | advmod |
| 16 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Dorothy | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 frightened | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Witch | det |
| 20 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 18 see | advmod |
| 22 | melting | melt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 see | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 melting | advmod |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 sugar | case |
| 25 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sugar | amod |
| 26 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 melting | obl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 eyes | advmod |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 melting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | Dorothy | indeed, sorry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | frighten | past · passive | Dorothy | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Witch | actually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | melt away | gerund | before Witch's eyes | like brown sugar; 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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