The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 16
Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds.
Who acts: little stars · What happens: sprinkle, glisten · To what, where: gown, sun
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 (little stars), 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 | Over | over | SCONJ | _ | 4 sprinkled | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 4 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stars | amod |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprinkled | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 glistened | nsubj |
| 8 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stars | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glistened | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 diamonds | case |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glistened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past · passive | gown | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glisten | participle | little stars | the sun | like diamonds | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=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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