The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 39
But the pretty milkmaid was much too vexed to make any answer.
What happens: vex, make · To what, where: pretty milkmaid, answer
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 vexed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 milkmaid | det |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 milkmaid | amod |
| 4 | milkmaid | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | aux |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 vexed | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 vexed | advmod |
| 8 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vexed | advcl |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 answer | det |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the pretty milkmaid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | any answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
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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