The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 117
Then all the Winged Monkeys, with much laughing and chattering and noise, flew into the air and were soon out of sight.
Who acts: Winged Monkeys · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: air, sight
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 (Winged 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 flew | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Monkeys | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Monkeys | det |
| 4 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Monkeys | compound |
| 5 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 laughing | case |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 laughing | amod |
| 9 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Monkeys | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chattering | cc |
| 11 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughing | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 noise | cc |
| 13 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughing | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Monkeys | punct |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sight | cc |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sight | cop |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 sight | advmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | all Winged Monkeys | then | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | all Winged Monkeys not said here | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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