The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 41
Besides, you have white in your frock, and only witches and sorceresses wear white.”
Who acts: you, witches · What happens: have, wear
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, witches), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 frock | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 frock | nmod:poss |
| 8 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 white | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wear | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 witches | advmod |
| 12 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sorceresses | cc |
| 14 | sorceresses | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 witches | conj |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wear | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | white property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | witches and sorceresses | white property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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