The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 8
The next morning the sun was behind a cloud, but they started on, as if they were quite sure which way they were going.
Who acts: next morning, travelers · What happens: be, start on, go · To what, where: cloud, way
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 (next morning, travelers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloud | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloud | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cloud | cop |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 cloud | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cloud | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 started | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sure | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sure | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 sure | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | cop |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 sure | advmod |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloud | parataxis |
| 22 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 23 way | det |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sure | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 way | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cloud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next morning | a cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start on | past | travelers = traveler | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | travelers = traveler | which way obl:unmarked; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | travelers = traveler | which way not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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