The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 70
“My grandfather was at that time the King of the Winged Monkeys which lived in the forest near Gayelette’s palace, and the old fellow loved a joke better than a good dinner.
Who acts: grandfather, time, old fellow · What happens: be, live, love · To what, where: forest, joke
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 (grandfather, time, old fellow), 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 | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 which | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Monkeys | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Monkeys | det |
| 12 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Monkeys | compound |
| 13 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 King | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 20 | Gayelette | Gayelette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Gayelette | case |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 loved | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 loved | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fellow | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fellow | amod |
| 27 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loved | nsubj |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lived | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 joke | det |
| 30 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 loved | obj |
| 31 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 loved | xcomp |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 dinner | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dinner | det |
| 34 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dinner | amod |
| 35 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 better | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | My grandfather | at that time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | past | that time | the forest | near Gayelette's palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | love in a quote | past | the old fellow | a joke | good property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus |
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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