The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 83
So the Wicked Witch took the Golden Cap from her cupboard and placed it upon her head.
Who acts: Wicked Witch · What happens: take, place · To what, where: Golden Cap, cupboard, head
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 3 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Witch | amod |
| 4 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cap | det |
| 7 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Cap | amod |
| 8 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cupboard | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cupboard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Wicked Witch | the Golden Cap | Witch's cupboard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cap=Theme from cupboard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | place | past | the Wicked Witch not said here | cupboard | Witch's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon head=Destination |
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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