The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 78

The little animals and all the people scampered out of their way, fearing the strangers would break them, and after an hour or so the travelers reached the other side of the country and came to another china wall.

Who acts: little animals, strangers, travelers · What happens: scamper, fear, break, reach, come · To what, where: way, people, other side, china wall · 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 (little animals, strangers, 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 animals	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scampered	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 people	cc
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 people	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scampered	nsubj
8	scampered	scamper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 way	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scampered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fearing	punct
14	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 scampered	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 strangers	det
16	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 break	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 break	aux
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fearing	ccomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 break	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reached	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 reached	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	24 hour	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 so	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 reached	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 travelers	det
28	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reached	nsubj
29	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scampered	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 side	amod
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 country	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 country	det
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 side	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 reached	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 wall	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 wall	det
40	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wall	compound
41	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 scampered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	scamper	past	the little animals		people's way		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out way=Trajectory
2	fear	gerund	the little animals not said here				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	break	would	the strangers	people			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
4	reach	past	the travelers	the other side of the country		hour	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme
5	come	past	the travelers not said here		another china wall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=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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