The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 79
It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the Lion’s back they all managed to scramble to the top.
Who acts: animal, travelers · What happens: not be, stand, manage, scramble · To what, where: back, top
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 (animal, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 high | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 high | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 high | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 high | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 managed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 managed | cc |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 standing | mark |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 managed | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 back | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Lion | case |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 managed | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 they | det |
| 22 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 scramble | mark |
| 24 | scramble | scramble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 managed | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scramble | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | animal | as the first; high, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | travelers = traveler not said here | the Lion's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon back=Location | ||||
| 3 | manage | past | travelers = traveler | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | scramble | to-infinitive | travelers = traveler not said here | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
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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