The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 84
“Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap,” replied the Monkey, “he was the first to lay his wishes upon us.
Who acts: Quelala, first owner, owner · What happens: be, reply, lay, wish · To what, where: first owner, Monkey, wishes · 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 (Quelala, first owner, owner), 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 | _ | 6 owner | punct |
| 2 | Quelala | Quelala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 owner | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 owner | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owner | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 owner | amod |
| 6 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Cap | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Cap | det |
| 9 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Cap | amod |
| 10 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 owner | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 owner | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 owner | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Monkey | det |
| 15 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 first | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 first | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 first | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 first | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 first | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 replied | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lay | mark |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 first | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lay | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | gerund | Quelala | the first owner | of the Golden Cap | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the first owner | the Monkey | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | owner | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay in a quote | to-infinitive | owner not said here | owner's wishes | upon us | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wish=Theme upon we=Destination | |||
| 5 | wish in a quote | owner | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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