The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 3
To be sure, the broad river now cut them off from this beautiful land.
Who acts: broad river · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: trees, beautiful land
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broad river), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 sure | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 6 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 river | amod |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cut | advmod |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 land | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 land | amod |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cut off | past | the broad river | trees = tree | this beautiful land | now | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Theme from land=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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