The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 6
They kept on walking, however, and at night the moon came out and shone brightly.
Who acts: travelers, moon · What happens: keep, come out, shine · To what, where: walking
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, moon), 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 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 walking | case |
| 4 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 kept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shone | cc |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 16 shone | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | travelers = traveler | walking | however property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on walking=Location | |||
| 2 | come out | past | the moon | night | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | shine | past | the moon not said here | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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