The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 15
A chorus of boisterous laughter came from the other rocks, and Dorothy saw hundreds of the armless Hammer-Heads upon the hillside, one behind every rock.
Who acts: chorus, Dorothy · What happens: come, see, chorus · To what, where: other rocks, hundreds, boisterous laughter
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 (chorus, Dorothy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chorus | det |
| 2 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 laughter | case |
| 4 | boisterous | boisterous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughter | amod |
| 5 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chorus | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 rocks | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rocks | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rocks | amod |
| 10 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Heads | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Heads | det |
| 18 | armless | armless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Heads | amod |
| 19 | Hammer | Hammer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Heads | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Hammer | punct |
| 21 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hundreds | nmod |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 hillside | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hillside | det |
| 24 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hillside | appos |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 rock | case |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 rock | det |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a chorus of boisterous laughter | the other rocks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rock=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Dorothy | hundreds of the armless Hammer Heads | upon the hillside | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | chorus | boisterous laughter | nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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