The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 79

The eyes winked three times, and then they turned up to the ceiling and down to the floor and rolled around so queerly that they seemed to see every part of the room.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: wink, turn up, roll around, seem, see · To what, where: part

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 (eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 winked	nsubj
3	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 winked	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 turned	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 winked	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 turned	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 ceiling	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ceiling	det
14	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 down	cc
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 ceiling	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 down	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rolled	cc
21	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
22	around	around	ADV	_	21 rolled	advmod
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 queerly	advmod
24	queerly	queerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rolled	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 seemed	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 queerly	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 part	det
31	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 part	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 winked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wink	past	the eyes		time		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn up	past	eyes = eye		then	to the ceiling	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll around	past	eyes = eye not said here			around, queerly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	eyes = eye				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	see	to-infinitive	eyes = eye not said here	every part of the room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus

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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