The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 33

“The best plan will be to walk along the riverbank until we come to the road again,” remarked the Lion.

Who acts: best plan, we, Lion · What happens: be, come, remark · To what, where: road · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (best plan, we, Lion), 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	_	8 walk	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plan	det
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 plan	amod
4	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 walk	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 remarked	ccomp
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 riverbank	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 riverbank	det
11	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 come	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 walk	punct
21	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lion	det
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 remarked	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	the best plan			along the riverbank; walk property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	we	the road	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location
3	remark speech: assert	past	the Lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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