The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 36
He walked up to another tree, as he spoke, but its branches immediately seized him and tossed him back again.
Who acts: room, branches · What happens: walk up, speak, seize, toss back · To what, where: room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (room, branches), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 walked | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoke | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 spoke | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 seized | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 branches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 seized | advmod |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tossed | cc |
| 19 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tossed | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 tossed | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 tossed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk up | past | room | to another tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | room | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | tree's branches | room | immediately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | toss back | past | tree's branches not said here | room | again | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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