The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 17
But the people do not seem to be as friendly as the Munchkins, and I’m afraid we shall be unable to find a place to pass the night.”
Who acts: people, I, we · What happens: not seem, be, find, pass · To what, where: place
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 (people, I, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 seem | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seem | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 seem | advmod |
| 6 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 friendly | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 friendly | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 friendly | advmod |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seem | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Munchkins | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Munchkins | det |
| 13 | Munchkins | Munchkin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 friendly | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ’m | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ’m | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ’m | nsubj |
| 17 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 seem | conj |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ’m | xcomp |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 unable | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 unable | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | cop |
| 22 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 afraid | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 unable | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 pass | mark |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 place | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seem | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem | present · do-support | the people | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the people not said here | as the Munchkins; friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | I | afraid property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | we not said here | a place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 6 | pass | to-infinitive | we not said here | a place not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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