The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 19
These houses were quite small, the biggest of them reaching only as high as Dorothy’s waist.
Who acts: houses · What happens: be, reach
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 small | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 small | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 small | advmod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 biggest | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 biggest | det |
| 8 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 small | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 biggest | nmod |
| 11 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 biggest | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reaching | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 waist | case |
| 16 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 waist | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Dorothy | case |
| 18 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 high | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this houses | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this houses not said here | of houses = house | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | this houses not said here | high property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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