The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 15

The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders.

Who acts: hats, hat, woman, white gown · What happens: be, wear, hang · To what, where: white gown, pleats

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 (hats, hat, woman, white gown), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hats	det
2	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blue	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hats	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	cop
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hat	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 woman	case
13	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 white	cop
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blue	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wore	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wore	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wore	nsubj
19	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blue	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gown	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gown	amod
22	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wore	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gown	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 pleats	case
26	pleats	pleat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 shoulders	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hats of the men			blue property	tree rules
2	is	past	the little woman's hat			white property	tree rules
3	wear	past	woman	a white gown			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gown=Theme
4	hang	past	a white gown		pleats	from woman's shoulders	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pleat=Location

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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