The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 38
And with another bow, the Monkey King spread his wings and flew away through the window, followed by all his band.
Who acts: Monkey King · What happens: spread, fly away, follow · To what, where: wings, window
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 bow | case |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 bow | det |
| 4 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bow | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | nsubj |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spread | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 window | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 band | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 band | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 band | nmod:poss |
| 23 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the Monkey King | King's wings | with another bow | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Destination with bow=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | the Monkey King not said here | the window | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | |||
| 3 | follow | participle | the window not said here | by King's band | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by band=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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