The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 94
Her tears seemed to grieve the kind-hearted Munchkins, for they immediately took out their handkerchiefs and began to weep also.
Who acts: tears · What happens: seem, grieve, take out, begin, weep · To what, where: hearted Munchkins, handkerchiefs
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 (tears), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grieve | mark |
| 5 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Munchkins | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 9 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Munchkins | amod |
| 10 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grieve | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 took | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 handkerchiefs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | handkerchiefs | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 began | cc |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 weep | mark |
| 22 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 weep | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Dorothy's tears | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | grieve | to-infinitive | Dorothy's tears not said here | the hearted Munchkins | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus munchkin=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | take out | past | tears = tear | tears's handkerchiefs | immediately property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme | |||
| 4 | begin | past | tears = tear not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | weep | to-infinitive | tears = tear not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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