The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 4
They kept this day as a holiday, then and ever after, and spent the time in feasting and dancing.
Who acts: Winkies · What happens: keep, spend · To what, where: feasting
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 holiday | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 holiday | det |
| 7 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 then | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 kept | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 after | cc |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 after | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADV | _ | 9 then | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spent | cc |
| 15 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spent | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 feasting | case |
| 19 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spent | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dancing | cc |
| 21 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feasting | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Winkies = winky | then; day | as a holiday | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | spend | past | Winkies = winky not said here | feasting and dancing | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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