The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 44
“Yes,” she answered, “I melted her with a bucket of water.”
Who acts: Witch · What happens: answer, melt · To what, where: Witch · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 melted | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 melted | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 melted | nsubj |
| 10 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 melted | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 bucket | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bucket | det |
| 14 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 melted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bucket | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Witch | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | melt in a quote | past | Witch | Witch | with a bucket of water | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bucket=Instrument |
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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