The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 9
So she chose a number of the Winkies who looked as if they knew the most, and they all started away.
Who acts: power, Winkies · What happens: choose, look, know, start away · To what, where: number
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, Winkies), 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 | _ | 3 chose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 number | det |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Winkies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Winkies | det |
| 8 | Winkies | Winky | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 number | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Winkies | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 knew | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 most | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 knew | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 started | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 started | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 started | advmod |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chose | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 started | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | power | a number of the Winkies | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the Winkies | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | Winkies = winky | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | start away | past | Winkies = winky | all, away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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