The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 27
So she called the Winkies to help her, and they walked all that day and part of the next until they came to the tall tree in the branches of which the Winged Monkeys had tossed the Scarecrow’s clothes.
Who acts: girl, Winkies · What happens: call, help, walk, come, toss · To what, where: Winkies, girl, branches, Winged Monkeys · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Winkies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Winkies | det |
| 5 | Winkies | winky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 walked | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 part | cc |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 next | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 next | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 26 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tree | amod |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 branches | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 branches | det |
| 30 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 tossed | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Monkeys | det |
| 34 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Monkeys | compound |
| 35 | Monkeys | Monkeys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 tossed | aux |
| 37 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 branches | acl:relcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Scarecrow | det |
| 39 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Scarecrow | case |
| 41 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 37 tossed | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | girl | the Winkies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winky=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | Winkies = winky | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Winkies = winky | the branches | to the tall tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | toss | past · perfect · passive | the Winged Monkeys | of the branches | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary clothes=Product |
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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