The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 31
The Scarecrow, who was in the lead, finally discovered a big tree with such wide-spreading branches that there was room for the party to pass underneath.
Who acts: Scarecrow, party · What happens: be, discover, spread, pass · To what, where: lead, big tree
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 (Scarecrow, party), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lead | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lead | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lead | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lead | det |
| 8 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Scarecrow | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scarecrow | punct |
| 10 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 discovered | advmod |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 branches | amod |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spreading | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wide | punct |
| 19 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 branches | amod |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 discovered | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 was | nsubj |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 branches | acl:relcl |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 pass | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 party | det |
| 27 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pass | nsubj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 pass | mark |
| 29 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 room | acl |
| 30 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 29 pass | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Scarecrow and the lead | the lead | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | the Scarecrow and the lead | a big tree | with such spreading branches; finally property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | |||
| 3 | spread | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | the party | underneath property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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