The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 17
As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.
Who acts: buttercups, ground, farms · What happens: advance, become, be, until · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buttercups, ground, farms), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 advanced | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | ccomp |
| 7 | rougher | rough | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hillier | cc |
| 9 | hillier | hilly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 rougher | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 were | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 farms | det |
| 15 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 houses | cc |
| 17 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 farms | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 farms | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 West | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 West | det |
| 23 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 country | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 untilled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 untilled | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 untilled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 untilled | aux:pass |
| 29 | untilled | until | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 advanced | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | buttercups = buttercup | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the ground | rough property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no farms in this country of the West nor houses | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | until | past · passive | the ground | tree rules |
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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