The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 188
They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.
Who acts: Dorothy, crowing, green cock · What happens: go, sleep, awaken, live, lay, crow · To what, where: bed, Dorothy, hen
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 (Dorothy, crowing, green cock), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 early | advmod |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slept | cc |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 8 slept | advmod |
| 10 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 daylight | case |
| 11 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 awakened | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 awakened | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 awakened | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 awakened | aux:pass |
| 16 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 crowing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crowing | det |
| 19 | crowing | crowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 awakened | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cock | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cock | det |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cock | amod |
| 23 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowing | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cock | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 yard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 yard | det |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 yard | compound |
| 29 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lived | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Palace | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Palace | det |
| 32 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 yard | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cackling | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cackling | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cackling | det |
| 36 | cackling | cackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crowing | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 hen | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 hen | det |
| 39 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cackling | nmod |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 laid | aux |
| 42 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 hen | acl:relcl |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 egg | det |
| 44 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 egg | amod |
| 45 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 laid | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Dorothy | bed | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | Dorothy not said here | until daylight | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | awaken | past · passive | the crowing of a green cock and the cackling of a hen | Dorothy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | past | a green cock | in the back yard of the Palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Location | ||||
| 5 | lay | past · perfect · passive | a hen | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme egg=Destination | |||||
| 6 | crow | a green cock | nom crowing «communication intransitive»: of=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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