The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 71
One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with his band when he saw Quelala walking beside the river.
Who acts: grandfather, Quelala · What happens: fly out, see, walk · To what, where: Quelala, river
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, Quelala), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wedding | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 wedding | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 wedding | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flying | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flying | aux |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wedding | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 flying | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 band | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 band | nmod:poss |
| 16 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flying | advcl |
| 20 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 saw | xcomp |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly out | past · progressive | my grandfather | with grandfather's band | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | grandfather | Quelala | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | Quelala not said here | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Trajectory |
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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