The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 43
The wild crows flew in one great flock toward Dorothy and her companions.
Who acts: wild crows · What happens: fly · To what, where: one great flock
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 (wild crows), 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 | 3 crows | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crows | amod |
| 3 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 flock | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 flock | nummod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flock | amod |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 Dorothy | case |
| 10 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flock | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 companions | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 companions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Dorothy | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the wild crows | one great flock toward Dorothy and flock's companions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in flock=Location |
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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