The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 30
So they looked for the place where it would be easiest to get into the forest.
Who acts: flowers, place · What happens: look, be, get · To what, where: place, forest
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 (flowers, place), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 easiest | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 easiest | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 easiest | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easiest | cop |
| 11 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 place | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easiest | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | flowers = flower | the place | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | would | place | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | place not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination |
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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