The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 79
She had all the Winged Monkeys brought before her, and she said at first that their wings should be tied and they should be treated as they had treated Quelala, and dropped in the river.
Who acts: water, Winged Monkeys · What happens: have, bring, say, tie, treat, drop · To what, where: wings, river · 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 (water, Winged Monkeys), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Monkeys | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Monkeys | det |
| 5 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Monkeys | compound |
| 6 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 tied | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 tied | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tied | aux:pass |
| 21 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 treated | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 treated | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 treated | aux:pass |
| 26 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tied | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 treated | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 treated | aux |
| 30 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 treated | advcl |
| 31 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 treated | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dropped | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dropped | cc |
| 34 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 river | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 river | det |
| 37 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dropped | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | water | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | all Winged Monkeys | before water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | water | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tie | should · passive | Monkeys's wings | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | treat | should · passive | wings = wing | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | treat | past · perfect · passive | wings = wing | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | drop | participle | the river | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in 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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