The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 33
“‘That’s a rather pretty eye,’” remarked the Munchkin who was watching the farmer.
Who acts: That, pretty eye · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: pretty eye, farmer
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, pretty eye), 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 | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 3 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 eye | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eye | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 pretty | advmod |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eye | amod |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 12 | remarked | remark | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 watching | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Munchkin | det |
| 14 | Munchkin | Munchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 watching | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 watching | aux |
| 17 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farmer | det |
| 19 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 watching | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a pretty eye | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | participle · progressive | a pretty eye | the farmer | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=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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