The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 40
“Because you wear silver shoes and have killed the Wicked Witch.
Who acts: you · What happens: wear, kill · To what, where: silver shoes, Wicked Witch
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 wear | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoes | compound |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wear | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Witch | det |
| 11 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Witch | amod |
| 12 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear in a quote | present | you | silver shoes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present · perfect | you not said here | the Wicked Witch | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=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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