The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 100
Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks.
Who acts: Some, Monkeys · What happens: seize, carry, be, cover · To what, where: Tin Woodman, Toto, air, country
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, Monkeys), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Monkeys | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Monkeys | det |
| 4 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woodman | det |
| 7 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Woodman | compound |
| 8 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 country | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 country | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 country | cop |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 21 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 country | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 rocks | case |
| 24 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 rocks | amod |
| 25 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Some | the Tin Woodman | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Some not said here | Toto | the air | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Monkeys = monkey | a country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | a country not said here | with sharp rocks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rock=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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