The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 44
“Blue is the color of the Munchkins, and white is the witch color.
Who acts: Blue · What happens: be · To what, where: color, white witch color
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 (Blue), 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 | _ | 5 color | punct |
| 2 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 color | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 color | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 color | det |
| 5 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Munchkins | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Munchkins | det |
| 8 | Munchkins | Munchkin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 color | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 color | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 color | cc |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 color | amod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 color | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 color | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 color | compound |
| 15 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 color | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 color | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Blue | the color and the white witch color | of the Munchkins | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Blue not said here | the white witch color | 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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