The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 50
Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a good-bye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself.
Who acts: Glinda, Dorothy, child · What happens: step down, give, thank, show · To what, where: ruby throne, good bye kiss, little girl, child, kindness, friends
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 (Glinda, Dorothy, child), 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 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Good | det |
| 3 | Good | Good | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 stepped | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 throne | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ruby | ruby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 throne | amod |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stepped | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kiss | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kiss | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 18 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kiss | amod |
| 19 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thanked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 thanked | cc |
| 22 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 thanked | nsubj |
| 23 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thanked | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 kindness | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 kindness | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kindness | det |
| 28 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thanked | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 shown | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 shown | aux |
| 31 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 friends | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friends | nmod:poss |
| 34 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shown | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 herself | cc |
| 36 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 friends | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | Glinda | child's ruby throne | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | Glinda not said here | a good bye kiss | the little girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Dorothy | child | for all kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 4 | show | past · perfect | child | all kindness not said here | child's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to friend=Recipient |
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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