The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 14
They wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkled sweetly as they moved.
Who acts: people, round hats, brims · What happens: wear, rise, tinkle, move · To what, where: round hats, small point
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, round hats, brims), 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 | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hats | amod |
| 4 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wore | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hats | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 point | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 point | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 point | amod |
| 10 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wore | obj |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 heads | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foot | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bells | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bells | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bells | amod |
| 19 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wore | obl |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 brims | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brims | det |
| 22 | brims | brim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bells | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 tinkled | nsubj |
| 24 | tinkled | tinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 brims | acl:relcl |
| 25 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 24 tinkled | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 moved | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 moved | nsubj |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tinkled | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | people | round hats | with little bells around the brims | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise | past | round hats | a small point | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tinkle | past | the brims | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | past | people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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