The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 23
The Monkeys were as prompt as ever, and in a few moments the entire band stood before her.
Who acts: Monkeys, entire band · What happens: be, stand
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 (Monkeys, entire band), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Monkeys | det |
| 2 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prompt | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prompt | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 prompt | advmod |
| 5 | prompt | prompt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 prompt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 moments | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moments | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moments | amod |
| 13 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stood | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 band | det |
| 15 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 band | amod |
| 16 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prompt | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prompt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Monkeys | prompt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the entire band | before Woodman; moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=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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