The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 92

There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders.

Who acts: rushing many wings, sun · What happens: be, rush, laugh, come out, show, surround · To what, where: Wicked Witch

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 (rushing many wings, sun), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wings	det
4	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wings	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wings	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wings	amod
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chattering	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chattering	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chattering	amod
11	chattering	chattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wings	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 laughing	cc
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 chattering	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sky	det
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sky	amod
23	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 out	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 show	mark
25	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Witch	det
27	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Witch	amod
28	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 show	obj
29	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 Witch	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 crowd	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 crowd	det
32	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surrounded	obl:agent
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 monkeys	case
34	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crowd	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 each	punct
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 Witch	conj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 pair	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 pair	det
39	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 each	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 wings	case
41	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wings	amod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 powerful	cc
43	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 immense	conj
44	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pair	nmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 shoulders	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shoulders	nmod:poss
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 wings	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a rushing many wings			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rush	gerund						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	a rushing many wings not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come out	past	the sun				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	show	to-infinitive	the sun not said here		the Wicked Witch			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient
6	surround	participle		the Wicked Witch not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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