The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 3
However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.
Who acts: holes · What happens: pick, get, reach · To what, where: way, solid ground
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 (holes), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 picking | mark |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 picking | advmod |
| 5 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 got | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 picking | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | advcl |
| 16 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ground | amod |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | gerund | holes = hole not said here | holes's way | carefully property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | |||
| 2 | get | past | holes = hole | along, however, safely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | holes = hole | solid ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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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