The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 25
The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.
Who acts: four travelers, each, Oz · What happens: pass, think, promise, bestow · To what, where: gift
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 (four travelers, each, Oz), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 travelers | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 travelers | nummod |
| 3 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | sleepless | sleepless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinking | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 thinking | nsubj |
| 10 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 passed | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gift | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gift | det |
| 13 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinking | obl |
| 14 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 promised | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 promised | aux |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 gift | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bestow | mark |
| 18 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 promised | xcomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bestow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the four travelers | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | each | of the gift | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Oz | the gift not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent gift=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bestow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | on Oz | 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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