The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 72
“Oz himself is the Great Wizard,” answered the Witch, sinking her voice to a whisper.
Who acts: Oz, Great Wizard · What happens: be, answer, sink · To what, where: Great Wizard, Witch, voice · 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 (Oz, Great Wizard), 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 Wizard | punct |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wizard | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Oz | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Wizard | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wizard | det |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wizard | amod |
| 7 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wizard | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wizard | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Witch | det |
| 12 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sinking | punct |
| 14 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 answered | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sinking | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 whisper | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 whisper | det |
| 19 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sinking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Oz Oz | the Great Wizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Great Wizard | the Witch | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sink | gerund | the Great Wizard not said here | Witch's voice | to a whisper | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voice=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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