The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 10
The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades.
Who acts: road, travelers, dangers · What happens: be, pave, rejoice, leave, meet, shade · To what, where: forest, gloomy shades
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, travelers, dangers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smooth | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smooth | cop |
| 4 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 paved | cc |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 paved | advmod |
| 7 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 smooth | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 now | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 paved | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 country | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 country | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smooth | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 beautiful | case |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rejoiced | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 rejoiced | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 rejoiced | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 travelers | det |
| 21 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 22 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smooth | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 leaving | mark |
| 24 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 rejoiced | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaving | obj |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 behind | advmod |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 24 leaving | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 met | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 met | cc |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 met | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dangers | det |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dangers | amod |
| 35 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 it | nsubj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 met | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 met | aux |
| 38 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 smooth | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 shades | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 shades | nmod:poss |
| 41 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 shades | amod |
| 42 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 met | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smooth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the road | smooth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pave | participle | the road not said here | now | well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | past | the travelers | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the travelers not said here | the forest | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | |||
| 6 | meet | past · perfect | dangers = danger | road's gloomy shades | with road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | shade | road | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=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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