The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 78
The Winged Monkeys had helped her do this.
Who acts: Winged Monkeys, Witch · What happens: help, do · To what, where: Witch, this
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, 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 | 3 Monkeys | det |
| 2 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Monkeys | compound |
| 3 | Monkeys | Monkeys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 helped | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 helped | aux |
| 5 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 helped | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helped | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past · perfect | the Winged Monkeys | Witch | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Witch not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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