The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 29
It was lucky the Scarecrow and the Woodman were wide awake and heard the wolves coming.
Who acts: speed, Woodman, wolves · What happens: be, hear, come · To what, where: wolves
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 (speed, Woodman, wolves), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | cop |
| 3 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Scarecrow | det |
| 5 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 awake | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Woodman | det |
| 8 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 awake | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 awake | cop |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 11 awake | advmod |
| 11 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lucky | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 heard | cc |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wolves | det |
| 15 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 heard | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | speed | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Woodman | awake, wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | speed not said here | the wolves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the wolves not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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