The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 43
“The Silver Shoes,” said the Good Witch, “have wonderful powers.
Who acts: Silver Shoes · What happens: say, have · To what, where: Good Witch, wonderful powers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Silver Shoes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Shoes | det |
| 3 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Shoes | compound |
| 4 | Shoes | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shoes | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shoes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Witch | det |
| 9 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Witch | amod |
| 10 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 powers | amod |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Silver Shoes | the Good Witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the Silver Shoes not said here | wonderful powers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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