The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 81

“The Witch of the East was proud of those silver shoes,” said one of the Munchkins, “and there is some charm connected with them; but what it is we never knew.”

Who acts: Witch, one, charm, we · What happens: be, say, connect, not know · To what, where: charm · 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 (Witch, one, charm, we), 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	_	8 proud	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Witch	det
3	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 proud	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 East	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 East	det
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Witch	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proud	cop
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 shoes	case
10	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 shoes	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shoes	compound
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 proud	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proud	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 proud	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 said	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Munchkins	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Munchkins	det
19	Munchkins	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 “	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Munchkins	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 is	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 “	conj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 charm	det
26	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
27	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 charm	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 connected	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 what	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 what	cc
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 said	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 what	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 what	cop
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 knew	advmod
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the Witch of the East			of that silver shoes; proud property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	one of the Munchkins				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	some charm		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	connect in a quote	participle		some charm not said here		with shoes = shoe	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with they=Co-Patient
5	is a in a quote	present	charm				tree rules
6	not know in a quote	past	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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