The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 171
He was glad to find his friends waiting for him, and told them of his terrible interview with the Wizard.
Who acts: Lion, friends · What happens: be, find, wait, tell, interview · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, friends), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 glad | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 friends | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waiting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 interview | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 interview | nmod:poss |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 interview | amod |
| 18 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 Wizard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Wizard | det |
| 21 | Wizard | Wizard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 interview | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Lion | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Lion not said here | Lion's friends | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Lion's friends not said here | for Lion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Lion not said here | friends = friend | of Lion's terrible interview with the Wizard | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 5 | interview | Lion | with the Wizard | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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