The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 2
It was difficult to walk without falling into muddy holes, for the grass was so thick that it hid them from sight.
Who acts: grass · What happens: be, walk, fall, hide · To what, where: muddy holes, holes, sight
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 (grass), 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 | 3 difficult | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 difficult | cop |
| 3 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 walk | mark |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 difficult | xcomp |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 falling | mark |
| 7 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 walk | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 holes | case |
| 9 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 holes | amod |
| 10 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 falling | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thick | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 thick | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grass | det |
| 14 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thick | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thick | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 thick | advmod |
| 17 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 difficult | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hid | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hid | nsubj |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thick | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hid | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fall | gerund | into muddy holes result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hole=Result | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the grass | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | grass | holes = hole | sight | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from sight=Beneficiary |
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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