The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 72
“We must hurry and get back to the road of yellow brick before dark,” he said; and the Scarecrow agreed with him.
Who acts: We, brick, Scarecrow · What happens: hurry, get back, say, agree · 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 (We, brick, Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 4 hurry | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hurry | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurry | aux |
| 4 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurry | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brick | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 dark | case |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurry | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurry | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 agreed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 agreed | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Scarecrow | det |
| 23 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 agreed | nsubj |
| 24 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 agreed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry in a quote | must | We | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get back in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | before dark | to the road of yellow brick result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | brick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | the Scarecrow | with brick | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
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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