The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 4
They knew, of course, they must go straight east, toward the rising sun; and they started off in the right way.
Who acts: travelers · What happens: know, go, rise, start off · To what, where: rising sun, right way · 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 (travelers), 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 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 9 go | advmod |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 of | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 east | advmod |
| 11 | east | east | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sun | punct |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 16 sun | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 15 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sun | amod |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 started | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 started | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 started | nsubj |
| 20 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 started | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 started | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | travelers = traveler | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | must | travelers = traveler | the rising sun | east property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward sun=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | start off | past | travelers = traveler | the right way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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