The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 39
“The trees seem to have made up their minds to fight us, and stop our journey,” remarked the Lion.
Who acts: trees, Lion, travelers, our · What happens: seem, make up, fight, stop, remark, mind · To what, where: minds, us, journey · 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 (trees, Lion, travelers, our), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trees | det |
| 3 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 remarked | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 minds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fight | mark |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | advcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 fight | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stop | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stop | cc |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seem | conj |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 journey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stop | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seem | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarked | punct |
| 21 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lion | det |
| 23 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 remarked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | the trees | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make up in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | the trees not said here | travelers's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | the trees not said here | us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | present | the trees not said here | our journey | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | remark speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | mind in a quote | travelers = traveler | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | journey in a quote | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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