The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 26
Aunt Em was washing the dishes.
Who acts: Em · What happens: wash · To what, where: dishes
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 (Em), 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 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Em | they | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 washing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washing | aux |
| 4 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Aunt | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dishes | det |
| 6 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 washing | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · progressive | Em = they | the dishes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
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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