The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 49
The King bowed low before Dorothy, and asked, “What is your command?”
Who acts: King · What happens: bow, ask, be · To what, where: Dorothy, command · 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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Dorothy | case |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 command | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 command | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 command | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 command | cop |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 command | nmod:poss |
| 15 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 command | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 command | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the King | Dorothy | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before dorothy=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | your command | tree rules |
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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