The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 20
They had no word from him the next day, nor the next, nor the next.
Who acts: travelers · What happens: have · To what, where: word
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 next | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 next | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 next | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 next | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 next | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 next | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | travelers = traveler | no word | day | from Wizard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
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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