The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 21
The three Munchkins bowed low to her and wished her a pleasant journey, after which they walked away through the trees.
Who acts: three Munchkins, Munchkins · What happens: bow, wish, walk away · To what, where: Emeralds, trees
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Munchkins, 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 | 3 Munchkins | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Munchkins | nummod |
| 3 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bowed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 12 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | amod |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wished | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 walked | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wished | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 walked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the three Munchkins | Emeralds | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot | |||
| 2 | wish | past | the three Munchkins not said here | Emeralds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk away | past | Munchkins = munchkin | the trees | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «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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