The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 19

But the little woman was doubtless much older.

Who acts: little woman · What happens: be

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 woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 doubtless	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doubtless	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doubtless	cop
6	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 older	advmod
8	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 doubtless	advcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 doubtless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little woman					doubtless property	tree rules

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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