The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 21
Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
Who acts: Toto, long silky hair · What happens: not be, be, twinkle · To what, where: little black dog, side
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 (Toto, long silky hair), 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 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gray | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gray | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 gray | advmod |
| 4 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 dog | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dog | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dog | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gray | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hair | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hair | case |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 15 | silky | silky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 eyes | cc |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyes | amod |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hair | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 twinkled | nsubj |
| 22 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hair | acl:relcl |
| 23 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 22 twinkled | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 side | det |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 twinkled | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 nose | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 nose | nmod:poss |
| 29 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nose | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 funny | punct |
| 31 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nose | amod |
| 32 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 side | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Toto | gray property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Toto | a little black dog and long silky hair and small black eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | twinkle | past | long silky hair and small black eyes | either side of Toto's funny wee nose | merrily property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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