The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 40
This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice.
Who acts: This, Witch · What happens: make, blow, whistle · To what, where: Witch, silver whistle
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 before | case |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 angrier | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whistle | amod |
| 13 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obj |
| 14 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 blew | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | Witch | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 2 | blow | past | Witch | Witch's silver whistle | twice property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | |||
| 3 | whistle | Witch | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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