The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 29

There was no way of going around it, for it seemed to extend to the right and left as far as they could see; and, besides, they did not dare change the direction of their journey for fear of getting lost.

Who acts: way, it, flowers, fear · What happens: be, go, seem, extend, leave, see · To what, where: way, right, direction

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 (way, it, flowers, fear), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 way	acl
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 seemed	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 extend	mark
14	extend	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 right	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 right	det
17	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 extend	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seemed	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 left	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 far	advcl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 dare	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dare	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	besides	besides	INTJ	_	34 dare	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 besides	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 dare	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dare	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 dare	advmod
34	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	parataxis
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 dare	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 direction	det
37	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 change	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 journey	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 journey	nmod:poss
40	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 direction	nmod
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 fear	case
42	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 journey	nmod
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 getting	mark
44	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 fear	acl
45	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 getting	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no way			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	gerund	no way not said here			way		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around it=Initial_Location
3	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	extend	to-infinitive			the right			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to right=Recipient
5	leave	past					far property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	could	flowers = flower					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not dare	past · do-support	flowers = flower					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not change	infinitive	flowers = flower not said here	the direction of flowers's journey for fear				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Patient
9	get	gerund	fear not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	lose	participle	fear not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	journey		flowers = flower				for fear	nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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