The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 8
“We must journey on until we find the road of yellow brick again,” said Dorothy, “and then we can keep on to the Emerald City.”
Who acts: We, Dorothy · What happens: journey on, find, say, keep · To what, where: road, Emerald City · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 journey | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 journey | aux |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 journey | compound:prt |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 journey | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brick | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 find | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 keep | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 keep | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 keep | aux |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 City | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 City | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 City | det |
| 29 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 City | compound |
| 30 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey on in a quote | must | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | we | the road of yellow brick | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dorothy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | can | we | the Emerald City | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on city=Location |
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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