The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 11
They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small.
Who acts: people · What happens: not be, grow, use, be · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 big | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 big | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 folk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 folk | det |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 folk | amod |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 big | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 used | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 used | aux |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 used | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 used | aux:pass |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 folk | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 used | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 small | cc |
| 18 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 22 small | advmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 small | cop |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 small | nsubj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 small | advmod |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 big | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | people | as the grown folk; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | use | past · perfect · passive | girl | always property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | people | neither, small property | tree rules |
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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