The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 20
Her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.
Who acts: hair, woman · What happens: cover, be, walk · To what, where: face
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 (hair, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | aux:pass |
| 4 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wrinkles | case |
| 6 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 covered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 white | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 white | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 white | cop |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 white | advmod |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 covered | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 walked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 walked | nsubj |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 covered | conj |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 stiffly | advmod |
| 18 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 16 walked | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | woman's face | with wrinkles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wrinkle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | woman's hair | nearly, white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | woman | stiffly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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