The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 10
But day by day passed away, and they still saw nothing before them but the scarlet fields.
Who acts: travelers · What happens: pass away, see · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers), 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 | _ | 5 passed | cc |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nothing | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fields | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fields | det |
| 17 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fields | compound |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | day | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | travelers = traveler | nothing | before flowers = flower; still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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