The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 3
It was much harder to find their way back through the big fields of buttercups and yellow daisies than it was being carried.
Who acts: It · What happens: be, find back, carry · To what, where: way, big fields, Winged
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 (It), 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 | 4 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 harder | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 harder | advmod |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 harder | csubj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 find | advmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fields | amod |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 buttercups | case |
| 15 | buttercups | buttercup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fields | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 daisies | cc |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 daisies | amod |
| 18 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fields | conj |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 carried | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 harder | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find back | to-infinitive | travelers's way | the big fields of buttercups and yellow daisies | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | Winged | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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