The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 48
This ended the saying of the charm, and they heard a great chattering and flapping of wings, as the band of Winged Monkeys flew up to them.
Who acts: This, zy, Winged Monkeys · What happens: end, hear, fly up, say, flap · To what, where: saying, great chattering, zy, charm, wings · 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 (This, zy, Winged Monkeys), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saying | det |
| 4 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ended | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 charm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 charm | det |
| 7 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ended | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chattering | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chattering | amod |
| 14 | chattering | chattering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flapping | cc |
| 16 | flapping | flapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chattering | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wings | case |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 flapping | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 band | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 band | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 band | det |
| 22 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | conj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 flew | mark |
| 24 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Monkeys | compound |
| 25 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 band | advcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 flew | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | This | the saying of the charm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality saying=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | zy | a great chattering and flapping of wings | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chattering=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly up | past | Winged Monkeys | zy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to they=Result | ||||
| 4 | say | the charm | nom saying «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | flap | wings | nom flapping «event 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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