The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 79
But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.
Who acts: action, I, my · What happens: anger, promise, not marry, act · To what, where: Wicked Witch, old woman, pretty Munchkin girl
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (action, I, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 angered | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 action | nmod:poss |
| 3 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angered | nsubj |
| 4 | angered | anger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Witch | det |
| 6 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Witch | amod |
| 7 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 East | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 East | det |
| 10 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Witch | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promised | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 promised | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 promised | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 promised | aux |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 angered | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 promised | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 marry | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 marry | advmod |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 woman | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 24 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 girl | amod |
| 25 | Munchkin | Munchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 girl | compound |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anger | past | my action | the Wicked Witch of the East | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus witch=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | action | the old woman | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not marry | should | I | the pretty Munchkin girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 4 | act | my | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=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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