The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 34
The Monkeys had set them down near a farmhouse, and the four travelers walked up to it and knocked at the door.
Who acts: four travelers · What happens: set down, walk up, knock · To what, where: Monkeys, farmhouse
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 (four travelers), 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 | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 farmhouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 farmhouse | det |
| 9 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 travelers | det |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 travelers | nummod |
| 14 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 walked | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knocked | cc |
| 20 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 knocked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past · perfect · passive | the Monkeys | a farmhouse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | walk up | past | the four travelers | farmhouse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | the four travelers not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=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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