The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 13
Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed.
Who acts: Three men · What happens: be, dress · To what, where: Three men, all
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 (Three men), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 men | cop |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 woman | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 woman | nummod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dressed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | oddly | oddly | ADV | _ | 13 dressed | advmod |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Three men and a one woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dress | past · passive | Three men and a one woman not said here | all | oddly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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