The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 73
So they kept walking until Dorothy could stand no longer.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: keep, walk, stand
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 (Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 kept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 stand | mark |
| 6 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stand | aux |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walking | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 stand | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Scarecrow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Scarecrow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | could | Dorothy | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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