The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 30
The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof.
Who acts: houses, each · What happens: look, be · To what, where: odd looking dwellings
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses, each), 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 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dwellings | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Munchkins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Munchkins | det |
| 5 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 houses | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dwellings | cop |
| 7 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwellings | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dwellings | amod |
| 10 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 round | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 round | mark |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 round | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 round | cop |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwellings | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dome | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 dome | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dome | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dome | amod |
| 20 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 round | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 roof | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 roof | det |
| 23 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dome | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwellings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the houses of the Munchkins | odd looking dwellings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | each | with a big dome for a roof; round property | tree rules |
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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