The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 76
He laughed, when he came to the top of the water, and swam in to shore.
Who acts: Quelala · What happens: laugh, come, swim · To what, where: top, shore
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swam | cc |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 swam | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Quelala | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Quelala | the top of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | swim | past | Quelala not said here | shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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