The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 76
“What is it?” asked the little old woman, and looked, and began to laugh.
Who acts: shout · What happens: be, ask, look, begin, laugh · To what, where: shout, little old woman · 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 (shout), 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 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 laugh | mark |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | shout | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | shout | the little old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | shout not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | shout not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | laugh | to-infinitive | shout not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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