The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 67
The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told.
Who acts: Winkies, brave people · What happens: not be, have, do, tell · To what, where: brave people, Winkies · 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 (Winkies, brave people), 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 | 2 Winkies | det |
| 2 | Winkies | Winky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 people | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 people | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 told | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 do | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the Winkies | a brave people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Winkies = winky | a brave people not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | a brave people not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Winkies = winky | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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