The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 43
“Is the Wicked Witch really destroyed?” asked the Voice, and Dorothy thought it trembled a little.
Who acts: Voice, Dorothy, courage · What happens: be, destroy, ask, think, tremble · To what, where: Wicked Witch, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Voice, Dorothy, courage), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Witch | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Witch | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Witch | det |
| 4 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Witch | amod |
| 5 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 destroyed | advmod |
| 7 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Witch | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 destroyed | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Witch | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Voice | det |
| 12 | Voice | Voice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trembled | nsubj |
| 18 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trembled | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the Wicked Witch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | participle | the Wicked Witch not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Dorothy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tremble | past | courage | a little | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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