The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 15
So I believe the best way to get across the desert will be through the air.
Who acts: I, best way · What happens: believe, get, be · To what, where: desert, air · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, best way), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 believe | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 air | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 way | acl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 desert | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 desert | det |
| 11 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 air | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 air | cop |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 air | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 believe | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the best way not said here | the desert | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across desert=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | future | the best way | the air | tree rules |
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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