The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 51
The King Crow flew at the Scarecrow, who caught it by the head and twisted its neck until it died.
Who acts: King Crow, eye · What happens: fly, catch, twist, die · To what, where: Scarecrow, eye, neck
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 (King Crow, eye), 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 Crow | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Crow | compound |
| 3 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Scarecrow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caught | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 head | det |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 twisted | cc |
| 16 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 twisted | obj |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 died | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 died | nsubj |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 twisted | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the King Crow | the Scarecrow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at scarecrow=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | eye | by the head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twist | past | the King Crow not said here | eye's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | eye | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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