The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 10

But the first thing to do is to cross the desert, and then it should be easy to find your way home.”

Who acts: first thing · What happens: do, be, find · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing), 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	_	9 cross	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thing	acl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cross	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 desert	det
11	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 easy	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 easy	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 easy	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 easy	expl
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 easy	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 easy	cop
18	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cross	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 easy	csubj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	20 find	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cross	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the first thing			cross property	tree rules
3	is	should	the first thing not said here		then	easy property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		your way		home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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