The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 29

“We must cross this strange place in order to get to the other side,” said Dorothy, “for it would be unwise for us to go any other way except due South.”

Who acts: We, Dorothy, place, us · What happens: cross, get, say, be, go · To what, where: strange place, other way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Dorothy, place, us), 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 cross	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 get	mark
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 in	fixed
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unwise	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 unwise	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 unwise	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 unwise	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 unwise	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 unwise	cop
26	unwise	unwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 go	mark
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 unwise	advcl
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 way	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 way	amod
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	except	except	ADP	_	36 South	case
35	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 South	amod
36	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 way	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 unwise	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 unwise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	must	We	this strange place		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here		to the other side result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result
3	say speech: assert	past	Dorothy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	would	place		unwise property	tree rules
5	go in a quote	to-infinitive	us	any other way except due South		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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