The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 23
They had long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth.
Who acts: directions · What happens: have · To what, where: long legs
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 (directions), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eyes | cc |
| 6 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 teeth | cc |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 teeth | amod |
| 10 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | directions = direction | long legs and fierce eyes and sharp teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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