The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 86
The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at Dorothy, and then shook their heads.
Who acts: Munchkins · What happens: look, shake · To what, where: Dorothy, heads
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 (Munchkins), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Munchkins | det |
| 2 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Witch | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Witch | det |
| 5 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Munchkins | conj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 looked | advmod |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 looked | obl |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | fixed |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dorothy | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Dorothy | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 Dorothy | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Dorothy | case |
| 15 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shook | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shook | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 shook | advmod |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heads | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shook | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Munchkins and the Witch | Dorothy | at one; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the Munchkins and the Witch not said here | Munchkins's heads | then | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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