The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 26
“It shall be done,” said the King, and at once the Winged Monkeys caught the four travelers and Toto up in their arms and flew away with them.
Who acts: King, Winged Monkeys · What happens: do, say, wing, catch, fly away · To what, where: country, four travelers, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Winged Monkeys), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 caught | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 caught | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 caught | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Monkeys | det |
| 16 | Winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Monkeys | amod |
| 17 | Monkeys | Monkeys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 caught | nsubj |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 travelers | det |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 travelers | nummod |
| 21 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 caught | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Toto | cc |
| 23 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 travelers | appos |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 Toto | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 arms | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 caught | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flew | cc |
| 29 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 flew | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | shall · passive | country | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | catch | past | the Winged Monkeys | the four travelers | travelers's arms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme at once=Asset | |||
| 5 | fly away | past | the Winged Monkeys not said here | with travelers = traveler; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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