The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 170

With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.

Who acts: Witch · What happens: fall down, melt, begin, spread · To what, where: brown shapeless mass, clean boards

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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Witch	det
5	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	15 mass	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mass	det
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mass	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 melted	punct
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 brown	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brown	punct
14	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mass	amod
15	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 spread	mark
19	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	over	over	ADP	_	23 boards	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boards	det
22	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boards	amod
23	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spread	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 floor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floor	det
26	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 floor	compound
27	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boards	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the Witch	a brown shapeless mass	with this words; down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mass=Location
2	melt	participle	the Witch not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	begin	past	the Witch not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	spread	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here	the clean boards of the kitchen floor		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over board=Location

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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