The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 5
Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
Who acts: dress, eyes · What happens: be, look
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 (dress, eyes), 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 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | cop |
| 4 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | amod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 blue | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blue | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blue | cop |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 white | conj |
| 15 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girl | amod |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Glinda's dress | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Glinda's eyes | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | eyes = eye | upon the little girl; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon girl=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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