The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 48
The four travelers walked with ease through the trees until they came to the farther edge of the wood.
Who acts: four travelers, travelers · What happens: walk, come · To what, where: trees, farther edge
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 (four travelers, travelers), 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 travelers | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 travelers | nummod |
| 3 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ease | case |
| 6 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 trees | det |
| 9 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 edge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 edge | det |
| 15 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 edge | amod |
| 16 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 edge | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the four travelers | the trees | with ease | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | travelers = traveler | the farther edge of the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location |
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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