The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 28
When she brought it into the Throne Room she spoke the magic words, and soon the band of Winged Monkeys flew in through the open window and stood beside her.
Who acts: Dorothy, band · What happens: bring, speak, fly, stand · To what, where: Cap, Throne Room, magic words, open window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, band), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Room | det |
| 7 | Throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Room | compound |
| 8 | Room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Room | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spoke | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flew | cc |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 flew | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 band | det |
| 18 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flew | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Monkeys | case |
| 20 | Winged | Winged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Monkeys | compound |
| 21 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 band | nmod |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 window | case |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 window | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 window | det |
| 26 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 window | amod |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flew | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 stood | cc |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flew | conj |
| 30 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stood | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Dorothy | Cap | the Throne Room | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Dorothy | the magic words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | the band of Winged Monkeys | the open window | soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location | |||
| 4 | stand | past | the band of Winged Monkeys not said here | beside Dorothy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
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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