The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 14

They walked through the forest until it became too dark to go any farther.

Who acts: trees, forest · What happens: walk, become, go · To what, where: forest

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 (trees, forest), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 became	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	advcl
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 dark	advmod
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dark	advcl
13	any	any	ADV	_	14 farther	advmod
14	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 go	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	trees = tree	the forest		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	become	past	forest		dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	go	to-infinitive	forest not said here		far property	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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