The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 18
They now turned and took a last look at the Emerald City.
Who acts: beasts · What happens: turn, take · To what, where: last look, Emerald City
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 took | cc |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 look | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 look | amod |
| 8 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 City | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 City | det |
| 11 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 City | compound |
| 12 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | beasts = beast | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | beasts = beast not said here | a last look | the Emerald City | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at city=Asset |
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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