The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 45
They all ran forward and passed under the tree without injury, except Toto, who was caught by a small branch and shaken until he howled.
Who acts: others, small branch, Toto · What happens: run, pass, catch, shake, howl · To what, where: tree, Toto
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, small branch, Toto), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ran | advmod |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 injury | case |
| 11 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Toto | punct |
| 13 | except | except | ADP | _ | 14 Toto | case |
| 14 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux:pass |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Toto | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 branch | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 branch | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 branch | amod |
| 22 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shaken | cc |
| 24 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 caught | conj |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 howled | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 howled | nsubj |
| 27 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shaken | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | others = other | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | others = other not said here | the tree | without injury | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | |||
| 3 | catch | past · passive | a small branch | Toto | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shake | participle | a small branch not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | howl | past | Toto | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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