The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 53
“But I am a good witch, and the people love me.
Who acts: little woman, people · What happens: be, love · To what, where: good witch, little woman
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 woman, people), 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 | _ | 7 witch | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 witch | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 witch | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 witch | amod |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 love | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 love | nsubj |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 witch | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 love | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 witch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the little woman = woman | a good witch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | the people | the little woman = woman | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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