The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 78
“She was so old,” explained the Witch of the North, “that she dried up quickly in the sun. That is the end of her.
Who acts: foot, old, sun. · What happens: be, explain, dry up · To what, where: Witch, sun., end · 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 (foot, old, sun.), 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 | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 explained | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
| 8 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Witch | det |
| 10 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 explained | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 North | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 North | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Witch | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dried | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dried | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 dried | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dried | nsubj |
| 18 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 explained | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 dried | compound:prt |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 dried | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun. | det |
| 23 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dried | obl |
| 24 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 end | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 end | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 end | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | foot | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | old | the Witch of the North | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dry up in a quote | past | foot | the sun. | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the sun. | the end | of foot | tree rules |
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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