The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 4

Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders.

Who acts: hair · What happens: be, fall, flow · To what, where: color, ringlets, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 red	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 red	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 red	amod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 color	case
8	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 red	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fell	cc
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 red	conj
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 flowing	mark
12	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fell	advcl
13	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flowing	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 shoulders	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoulders	nmod:poss
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flowing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Glinda's hair		color	red property	tree rules
2	fall	past	Glinda's hair not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flow	gerund	Glinda's hair not said here	ringlets	Glinda's shoulders		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ringlet=Theme

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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