The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 16
When they were all sitting in a row on the top of the wall, they looked down and saw a strange sight.
Who acts: brains · What happens: sit, look down, see · To what, where: row, strange sight
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brains), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 looked | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 row | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 row | det |
| 8 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sight | amod |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | brains = brain | a row | on the top of the wall; all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 2 | look down | past | brains = brain | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | brains = brain not said here | a strange 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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