The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 13
As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill.
Who acts: head, neck · What happens: shoot, stretch out, be, strike, send, tumble · To what, where: neck, Scarecrow, middle, hill
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, neck), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 quick | advmod |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 shot | mark |
| 4 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 man | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shot | nsubj |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 quick | advcl |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 shot | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stretched | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shot | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 stretched | compound:prt |
| 16 | until | until | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretched | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flat | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 flat | advmod |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flat | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 flat | cop |
| 26 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 top | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 struck | punct |
| 28 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shot | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Scarecrow | det |
| 30 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 struck | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 middle | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 middle | det |
| 33 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 struck | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sent | cc |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 struck | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sent | obj |
| 37 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 sent | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 over | punct |
| 39 | over | over | ADV | _ | 37 tumbling | advmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 over | cc |
| 41 | over | over | ADV | _ | 39 over | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hill | punct |
| 43 | down | down | ADP | _ | 45 hill | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hill | det |
| 45 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tumbling | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the man's head | forward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle · passive | creature's neck | until the top of the head | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | neck | flat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | the man's head not said here | the Scarecrow | the middle | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Patient | |||
| 5 | send | past | the man's head not said here | Scarecrow | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tumble | gerund | the man's head not said here | the hill | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down hill=Initial_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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