The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 99
Then, with a great deal of chattering and noise, the Winged Monkeys flew away to the place where Dorothy and her friends were walking.
Who acts: Winged Monkeys, Dorothy · What happens: fly away, walk, deal · To what, where: chattering
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, Dorothy), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 deal | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chattering | case |
| 8 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 noise | cc |
| 10 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chattering | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Monkeys | det |
| 13 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Monkeys | compound |
| 14 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 walking | advmod |
| 21 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 walking | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 friends | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Dorothy | conj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 walking | aux |
| 26 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 place | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the Winged Monkeys | then | with a great deal of chattering and noise; to the place result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | |||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | Dorothy and Dorothy's friends | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deal | chattering and noise | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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