The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 24
He had once met the Winged Monkeys in the Land of the West, and he did not wish to meet them again.
Who acts: Wizard · What happens: meet, wing, not wish · To what, where: Winged Monkeys, Land, Monkeys
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Monkeys | det |
| 6 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Monkeys | amod |
| 7 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Land | det |
| 10 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 West | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 West | det |
| 13 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wish | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wish | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wish | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wish | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wish | advmod |
| 19 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 met | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 meet | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | Wizard | the Winged Monkeys | the Land of the West | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Wizard | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wizard not said here | Monkeys = monkey | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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