The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 65
The Wicked Witch was so angry when she saw her black bees in little heaps like fine coal that she stamped her foot and tore her hair and gnashed her teeth.
Who acts: Wicked Witch, Witch · What happens: be, see, stamp, tore, gnash · To what, where: black bees, little heaps, foot, hair, teeth
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 (Wicked Witch, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Witch | amod |
| 3 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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 angry | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bees | nmod:poss |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bees | amod |
| 12 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heaps | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heaps | amod |
| 15 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 coal | case |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coal | amod |
| 18 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heaps | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 stamped | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stamped | nsubj |
| 21 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stamped | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tore | cc |
| 25 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 stamped | conj |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hair | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tore | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gnashed | cc |
| 29 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tore | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 31 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gnashed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Wicked Witch | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Witch | Witch's black bees | little heaps like fine coal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bee=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stamp | past | Witch | Witch's foot | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | ||||
| 4 | tore | past | Witch not said here | Witch's hair | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gnash | past | Witch not said here | Witch's teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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