The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 53
Besides, her castle stands on the edge of the desert, so she may know a way to cross it.”
Who acts: castle · What happens: stand, know, cross · To what, where: edge, way
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 stands | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 castle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | nsubj |
| 5 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stands | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 desert | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 desert | det |
| 11 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 edge | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stands | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cross | mark |
| 20 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cross | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | Woodman's castle | the edge of the desert | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | may | castle | a way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | castle not said here | way | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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