The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 1
After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.
Who acts: travelers · What happens: climb down, find, cover · To what, where: china wall, travelers, disagreeable country
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 climbing | mark |
| 2 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 climbing | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 6 | china | china | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wall | compound |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbing | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 travelers | det |
| 9 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bogs | case |
| 19 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 marshes | cc |
| 21 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bogs | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 covered | cc |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 full | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 grass | case |
| 25 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grass | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tall | punct |
| 27 | rank | rank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grass | amod |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | gerund | the travelers not said here | the china wall | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | past | the travelers | travelers = traveler | a disagreeable country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 3 | cover | participle | the travelers not said here | with tall rank grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grass=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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