The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 72
There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.
Who acts: cupboard, rubies · What happens: be, run · To what, where: cupboard
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 (cupboard, rubies), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cupboard | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cupboard | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cupboard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cap | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Cap | det |
| 9 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cap | amod |
| 10 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cupboard | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 circle | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 circle | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 circle | det |
| 14 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 diamonds | case |
| 16 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 circle | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rubies | cc |
| 18 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 diamonds | conj |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 rubies | acl |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 running | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Witch's cupboard | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | rubies not said here | cupboard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |
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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