The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 22
But the little old woman walked up to Dorothy, made a low bow and said, in a sweet voice:
Who acts: little old woman · What happens: walk up, make, say · To what, where: Dorothy, low bow, sweet voice · 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 (little old 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 walked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 walked | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Dorothy | case |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bow | amod |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 voice | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 voice | amod |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | the little old woman | Dorothy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dorothy=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a low bow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a sweet voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner |
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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