The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 1

“We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now,” remarked the Scarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, “for we have come nearly as far as the river carried us away.”

Who acts: We, Scarecrow, he, river · What happens: not be, remark, stand, come, carry away · To what, where: road, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Scarecrow, he, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 far	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 far	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 far	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 far	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 remarked	parataxis
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 far	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 brick	case
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brick	amod
12	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 road	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 far	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 far	punct
17	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Scarecrow	det
19	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remarked	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 stood	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 remarked	parataxis
24	beside	beside	ADP	_	26 girl	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 girl	det
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 stood	conj
33	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	35 far	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 far	advmod
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 come	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 carried	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carried	nsubj
39	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 far	advcl
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 carried	obj
41	away	away	ADV	_	39 carried	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	can	We		the road of yellow brick	now	far property	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	participle	the Scarecrow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	past	he				beside the girl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside girl=Location
4	come in a quote	present · perfect	we				far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry away in a quote	past	the river	us			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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