The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 59

There are wild beasts in the woods, and a race of queer men who do not like strangers to cross their country.

Who acts: wild beasts, queer men · What happens: be, not like, cross, race · To what, where: woods, strangers, country

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 (wild beasts, queer men), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beasts	amod
4	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 race	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 race	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 race	det
11	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 men	case
13	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 race	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 like	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 men	acl:relcl
19	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 like	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cross	mark
21	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 country	nmod:poss
23	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cross	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	does	present	wild beasts		the woods; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
2	not like	present · do-support	queer men	strangers		tree rules
3	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	queer men not said here	strangers's country		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient
4	race		queer men			nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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