The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 41

“She was the Wicked Witch of the East, as I said,” answered the little woman.

Who acts: woman, little woman · What happens: be, say, answer · To what, where: Wicked Witch · 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 (woman, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Witch	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Witch	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Witch	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Witch	det
5	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Witch	amod
6	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 East	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 East	det
9	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Witch	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Witch	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Witch	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	woman	the Wicked Witch	of the East	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the little woman = woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the little woman			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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