The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 74
“‘Swim out, my fine fellow,’ cried my grandfather, ‘and see if the water has spotted your clothes.’
Who acts: you · What happens: swim out, cry, see, spot · To what, where: fine fellow, grandfather, water
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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 Swim | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Swim | punct |
| 3 | Swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 Swim | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fellow | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Swim | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Swim | parataxis |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grandfather | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | conj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 spotted | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spotted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 spotted | aux |
| 22 | spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 see | ccomp |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 spotted | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Swim | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my fine fellow | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | my grandfather and ‘ | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | spot a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the water | tree rules |
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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