The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 8
And the water grew so deep that the long poles would not touch the bottom.
Who acts: water, long poles · What happens: grow, not touch · To what, where: bottom
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 (water, long poles), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 deep | advmod |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 touch | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poles | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 poles | amod |
| 10 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 touch | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 touch | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touch | advmod |
| 13 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deep | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the water | deep property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not touch | would | the long poles | the bottom | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme |
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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