The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 24
We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.”
Who acts: We · What happens: be, kill, set · To what, where: you, Wicked Witch, people
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grateful | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grateful | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 grateful | advmod |
| 4 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 grateful | obl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 killed | mark |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 killed | aux |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 grateful | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Witch | det |
| 11 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Witch | amod |
| 12 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 East | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 East | det |
| 15 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Witch | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 setting | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 setting | cc |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 setting | mark |
| 19 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grateful | conj |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod:poss |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 setting | obj |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 setting | xcomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 bondage | case |
| 24 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 free | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 setting | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | you | grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | gerund · perfect | We not said here | the Wicked Witch of the East | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | gerund | We not said here | our people | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result |
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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