The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 31
They will carry you to the City of Oz in less than an hour.”
Who acts: backs · What happens: carry · To what, where: you, City
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 (backs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 City | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 City | det |
| 7 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Oz | case |
| 9 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 City | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hour | case |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 14 hour | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 less | fixed |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | future | backs = back | you | the City of Oz | hour | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to city=Destination |
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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