The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 63
The Witch of the North seemed to think for a time, with her head bowed and her eyes upon the ground.
Who acts: Witch, head · What happens: seem, think, bow · To what, where: ground
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 (Witch, head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Witch | det |
| 2 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 North | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 North | det |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Witch | nmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bowed | punct |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 bowed | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bowed | nsubj |
| 16 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eyes | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bowed | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bowed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the Witch of the North | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the Witch of the North not said here | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | Witch's head | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location |
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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