The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 82

Of course my grandfather and all the other Monkeys at once agreed to the condition, and that is how it happens that we are three times the slaves of the owner of the Golden Cap, whosoever he may be.”

Who acts: that, it, we · What happens: agree, be, happen · To what, where: other Monkeys, slaves, whosoever

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 (that, it, we), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 grandfather	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 grandfather	nmod:poss
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Monkeys	cc
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 Monkeys	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Monkeys	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Monkeys	amod
9	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 grandfather	nmod
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 agreed	mark
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 agreed	advmod
12	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Monkeys	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 condition	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 condition	det
15	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agreed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 how	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 how	cc
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 how	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 how	cop
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 Monkeys	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 happens	nsubj
22	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 how	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 slaves	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 slaves	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 slaves	cop
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 slaves	nmod:unmarked
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 slaves	det
29	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 happens	advcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 owner	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 owner	det
32	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 slaves	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 Cap	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Cap	det
35	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Cap	amod
36	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 owner	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 whosoever	punct
38	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 owner	conj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 be	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 be	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 whosoever	cop
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grandfather	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grandfather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle		all other Monkeys not said here		to the condition; once property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that			how property	tree rules
3	happen	present	it				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	we	the slaves	time	of the owner of the Golden Cap	tree rules
5	is a	infinitive	we not said here	whosoever			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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