The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 18
So he put out his tongue and panted and looked at Dorothy as if to ask what they should do next.
Who acts: Toto, companions · What happens: put out, pant, look, ask, do · To what, where: tongue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto, companions), 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 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 panted | cc |
| 8 | panted | pant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Dorothy | case |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 looked | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | ccomp |
| 21 | next | next | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | Toto | Toto's tongue | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal | ||||
| 2 | pant | past | Toto not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | past | Toto not said here | at Dorothy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dorothy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Toto not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | should | companions = companion | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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