The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 69
When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be the best and wisest man in all the land, while his manly beauty was so great that Gayelette loved him dearly, and hastened to make everything ready for the wedding.
Who acts: Gayelette, manly beauty · What happens: grow, call, say, be, love, hasten · To what, where: Gayelette, best man, land, Quelala, everything · 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 (Gayelette, manly beauty), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 manhood | case |
| 5 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Quelala | punct |
| 7 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 manhood | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 called | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 grew | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 man | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 man | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 man | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wisest | cc |
| 21 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 best | conj |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 land | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 great | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 great | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 30 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beauty | amod |
| 31 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 great | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 great | cop |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 great | advmod |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 loved | mark |
| 36 | Gayelette | Gayelette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 loved | nsubj |
| 37 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 great | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 loved | obj |
| 39 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 37 loved | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hastened | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 hastened | cc |
| 42 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 make | mark |
| 44 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 hastened | advcl |
| 45 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 44 make | obj |
| 46 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 make | xcomp |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 wedding | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 wedding | det |
| 49 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 ready | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Gayelette | to manhood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | Gayelette | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · passive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the best man | all land | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Gayelette's manly beauty | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | past | Gayelette | Quelala | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | hasten | participle | Gayelette not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | Gayelette not said here | everything | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
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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