The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 108
The leader of the Winged Monkeys flew up to her, his long, hairy arms stretched out and his ugly face grinning terribly; but he saw the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss upon her forehead and stopped short, motioning the others not to touch her.
Who acts: leader, ugly face, Toto, Good Witch · What happens: fly up, stretch out, grin, see, stop, motion · To what, where: Dorothy, hairy arms, mark, others, kiss
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 (leader, ugly face, Toto, Good Witch), 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 leader | det |
| 2 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Monkeys | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Monkeys | det |
| 5 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Monkeys | compound |
| 6 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 leader | nmod |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 flew | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 flew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 long | nmod:poss |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stretched | punct |
| 15 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arms | amod |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 long | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 stretched | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grinning | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grinning | nsubj |
| 23 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 stretched | conj |
| 24 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 23 grinning | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flew | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mark | det |
| 30 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 kiss | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Witch | det |
| 33 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Witch | amod |
| 34 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Witch | case |
| 36 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mark | nmod |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 forehead | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 39 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 stopped | cc |
| 41 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 saw | conj |
| 42 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 stopped | xcomp |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 motioning | punct |
| 44 | motioning | motion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 stopped | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 others | det |
| 46 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 motioning | obj |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 touch | advmod |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 touch | mark |
| 49 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 motioning | advcl |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 touch | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | the leader of the Winged Monkeys | Dorothy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle · passive | hairy arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grin | gerund | Toto's ugly face | terribly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Toto | the mark of the Good Witch's kiss | upon Dorothy's forehead | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stop | past | Toto not said here | short property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | motion | gerund | Toto not said here | the others | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not touch | to-infinitive | Toto not said here | Dorothy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 8 | mark | the Good Witch's kiss | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | kiss | the Good Witch | nom kiss «act transitive»: 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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