The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 29
“This is the second time you have called us,” said the Monkey King, bowing before the little girl.
Who acts: This, second time, Monkey King · What happens: be, call, say, bow · To what, where: second time, you · 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 (This, second time, Monkey King), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 15 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | compound |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bowing | punct |
| 18 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bowing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the second time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the second time not said here | you | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme we=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Monkey King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bow | gerund | the Monkey King not said here | before the little girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before girl=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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