The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 32
“There are her two feet, still sticking out from under a block of wood.”
Who acts: two feet · What happens: be, stick out · To what, where: two feet, block
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 (two feet), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 feet | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feet | cop |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 feet | nummod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sticking | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 sticking | advmod |
| 9 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 feet | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sticking | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 block | case |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 block | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 block | det |
| 14 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sticking | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 block | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sticking | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | two feet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stick out in a quote | gerund | two feet not said here | a block of wood | still | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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