The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 57

“That is a long story,” answered the King, with a winged laugh; “but as we have a long journey before us, I will pass the time by telling you about it, if you wish.”

Who acts: That, long story, we, King · What happens: be, answer, wing, have, pass, tell · To what, where: long story, King, long journey · 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 (That, long story, we, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 story	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 story	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 story	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laugh	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 laugh	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 laugh	det
15	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 laugh	amod
16	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 pass	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 have	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 journey	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 journey	amod
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pass	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	aux
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pass	obj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 telling	mark
35	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 pass	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 telling	iobj
37	about	about	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 telling	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wish	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 wish	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 wish	nsubj
42	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pass	parataxis
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a long story				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a long story		the King			tree rules
3	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	present	we	a long journey		before us		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient
5	pass in a quote	future	a long story = story			time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	a long story = story not said here		the King = king		about story	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=Topic
7	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the King = king					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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