The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 89
She wondered at the rapid flight of the Monkeys, but was glad the journey was over.
Who acts: Cap, journey · What happens: wonder, be · To what, where: rapid flight
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 (Cap, journey), 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 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 flight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flight | det |
| 5 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flight | amod |
| 6 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wondered | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Monkeys | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Monkeys | det |
| 9 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 flight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 glad | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wondered | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 over | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 over | cop |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 glad | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | Cap | the rapid flight of the Monkeys | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | glad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the journey | over property | 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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