The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 55
“But I thought all witches were wicked,” said the girl, who was half frightened at facing a real witch.
Who acts: I, witches, girl · What happens: think, be, say, frighten, face · To what, where: girl, real 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 (I, witches, girl), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 witches | det |
| 6 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wicked | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wicked | cop |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wicked | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frightened | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 frightened | aux:pass |
| 17 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 frightened | advmod |
| 18 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 girl | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 facing | mark |
| 20 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 frightened | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 witch | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 witch | amod |
| 23 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 facing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | all witches | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | frighten | past · passive | the girl | half property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | face | gerund | a real witch | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme witch=Destination |
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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