The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 47

The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it.

Who acts: other trees, branches, first row, these · What happens: do, keep back, make up, bend down, be, give · To what, where: nothing, branches, minds, policemen, wonderful power, order

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 (other trees, branches, first row, these), 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	3 trees	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trees	nmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 did	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 made	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 did	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 made	compound:prt
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 minds	nmod:poss
19	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 bend	obj
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 row	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 row	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 row	amod
24	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bend	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 row	nmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 bend	aux
28	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 minds	acl:relcl
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 bend	compound:prt
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 branches	nmod:poss
31	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bend	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 that	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 that	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 did	obj
35	probably	probably	ADV	_	39 policemen	advmod
36	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 policemen	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 policemen	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 policemen	det
39	policemen	policeman	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 that	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 forest	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 forest	det
42	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 policemen	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 given	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 given	cc
45	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 policemen	conj
46	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 power	det
47	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 power	amod
48	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 given	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 order	case
50	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 given	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 keep	mark
52	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 given	advcl
53	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 keep	obj
54	out	out	ADP	_	56 it	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 it	case
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 keep	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the other trees of the forest	nothing			tree rules
2	keep back	to-infinitive	the other trees of the forest not said here	branches = branch			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	make up	past	branches = branch	branches's minds			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
4	bend down	could	the first row of trees	branches's minds			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient branch=Result
5	is a	past	these	the policemen		of the forest; probably property	tree rules
6	give	participle	these not said here	this wonderful power	order		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme
7	keep	to-infinitive	these not said here	strangers	tree		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme out it=Location
8	mind		branches = branch				nom mind «cognition 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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