The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 58
“The road is straight to the South,” he answered, “but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers.
Who acts: road · What happens: be, answer, say · To what, where: South · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (road), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 South | cop |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 South | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 South | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 South | det |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 road | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 road | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 road | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | aux:pass |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 full | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 full | cop |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dangers | case |
| 23 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 full | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 travelers | case |
| 25 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dangers | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the road and the South not said here | to the South; straight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the road and the South | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | South | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | of dangers to travelers; full property | 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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