The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 15
She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now.
Who acts: Aunt · What happens: be, gaunt, not smile
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thin | cop |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gaunt | cc |
| 5 | gaunt | gaunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thin | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smiled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smiled | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 smiled | advmod |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thin | parataxis |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 smiled | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Aunt | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gaunt | infinitive | Aunt not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not smile | past | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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