The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 18

The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards.

Who acts: men, two · What happens: think, be, have · To what, where: beards · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, two), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 men	punct
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	ccomp
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 Henry	case
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Henry	compound
13	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 old	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 two	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 had	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 two	nmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	ccomp
20	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the men			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	past			as Uncle Henry; about, old property	tree rules
3	have	past	two of men	beards		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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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