The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 95

As for the little old woman, she took off her cap and balanced the point on the end of her nose, while she counted “One, two, three” in a solemn voice.

Who acts: woman · What happens: take off, balance, count · To what, where: cap, point, end, One, solemn voice

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 (woman), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 woman	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 woman	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cap	nmod:poss
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 balanced	cc
14	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 balanced	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 balanced	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 nose	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nose	nmod:poss
22	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 end	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 counted	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 counted	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 counted	nsubj
26	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 One	punct
28	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 counted	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 two	punct
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 One	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 three	punct
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 One	conj
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 three	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 voice	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 voice	det
36	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 voice	amod
37	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 counted	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	woman	woman's cap			as the little old woman	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
2	balance	past	woman not said here	the point		on the end of woman's nose		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent point=Theme on end=Location
3	count	past	woman	One	a solemn voice			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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