The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 40
The news spread rapidly throughout the city and everyone came to see the wonderful sight.
Who acts: news, everyone · What happens: spread, come, see · To what, where: city, wonderful sight
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, everyone), 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 | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 3 spread | advmod |
| 5 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spread | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sight | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sight | amod |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the news | the city | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout city=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | everyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | the wonderful sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
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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