The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 36
The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all.
Who acts: girl, Tin Woodman · What happens: frighten, see, tell · To what, where: little girl, great pile, girl · 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 (girl, Tin Woodman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 saw | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pile | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pile | amod |
| 12 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wolves | case |
| 14 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wolves | amod |
| 15 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pile | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Woodman | det |
| 19 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Woodman | compound |
| 20 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 her | det |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the little girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | see | past | girl | the great pile of shaggy wolves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pile=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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