The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 88
As the Monkey King finished his story Dorothy looked down and saw the green, shining walls of the Emerald City before them.
Who acts: Monkey King, story · What happens: finish, look down, see, shine · To what, where: green, walls
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 (Monkey King, story), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 finished | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | appos |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 looked | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 green | det |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shining | punct |
| 16 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shining | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 City | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 City | det |
| 20 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 City | compound |
| 21 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 walls | nmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | the Monkey King | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look down | past | King's story | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the Monkey King not said here | the green | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer green=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | the Monkey King not said here | walls of the Emerald City | before walls = wall | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=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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