The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 9
Glinda leaned forward and kissed the sweet, upturned face of the loving little girl.
Who acts: Glinda · What happens: learn, kiss · To what, where: sweet upturned face
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), 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 | 2 leaned | nsubj |
| 2 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 leaned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweet | punct |
| 9 | upturned | upturned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 13 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | Glinda | forward property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Glinda not said here | the sweet upturned face of the loving little girl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Co-Agent |
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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