The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 59
“Once,” began the leader, “we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master.
Who acts: we · What happens: begin, be, live, fly, eat, do · To what, where: leader, free people, great forest, tree, nuts, anybody master · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 began | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 began | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Once | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Once | punct |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leader | det |
| 7 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 people | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 people | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leader | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 living | punct |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | parataxis |
| 17 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 16 living | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forest | amod |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 living | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flying | punct |
| 23 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 living | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flying | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flying | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 eating | punct |
| 29 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 flying | conj |
| 30 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eating | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fruit | cc |
| 32 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nuts | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 doing | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 doing | cc |
| 35 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | advcl |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 pleased | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 pleased | mark |
| 38 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 pleased | nsubj |
| 39 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 doing | ccomp |
| 40 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 41 calling | mark |
| 41 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 pleased | advcl |
| 42 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 43 master | compound |
| 43 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 calling | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the leader and a free people | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | we | a free people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | gerund | the great forest | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 4 | fly in a quote | gerund | tree | to tree | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial_Location to tree=Destination | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | gerund | nuts and fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | call in a quote | gerund | anybody master | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |
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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