The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 75
Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchkins, who had been standing silently by, gave a loud shout and pointed to the corner of the house where the Wicked Witch had been lying.
Who acts: Dorothy, Munchkins, Wicked Witch · What happens: go, ask, stand, give, point, lie · To what, where: question, loud shout, corner
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 (Dorothy, Munchkins, Wicked Witch), 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 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Munchkins | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Munchkins | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 Munchkins | advmod |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Munchkins | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Munchkins | det |
| 13 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 going | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 standing | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Munchkins | acl |
| 19 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 18 standing | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 gave | mark |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 by | punct |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shout | det |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shout | amod |
| 25 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pointed | cc |
| 27 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 shout | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 corner | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 corner | det |
| 30 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pointed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 house | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 house | det |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 corner | nmod |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 lying | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Witch | det |
| 36 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Witch | amod |
| 37 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 lying | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 lying | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 lying | aux |
| 40 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 house | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Dorothy | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | another question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · perfect · progressive | the Munchkins | silently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the Munchkins not said here | a loud shout | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme | ||||
| 5 | point | participle | the Munchkins not said here | the corner of the house | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to corner=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | lie | past · perfect · progressive | the Wicked Witch | vn assuming_position-50 «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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