The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 4

But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.

Who acts: country, long, holes, trees, any · What happens: seem, walk, enter, be, see · To what, where: underbrush, 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 (country, long, holes, trees), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 seemed	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 seemed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 country	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wilder	wild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 seemed	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 wilder	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walk	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 walk	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 walk	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 walk	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 walk	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tiresome	cc
15	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 long	conj
16	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	parataxis
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 underbrush	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 underbrush	det
19	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 walk	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 entered	nsubj
21	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 underbrush	acl:relcl
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entered	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bigger	punct
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 bigger	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bigger	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 bigger	cop
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 forest	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 older	cc
31	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 bigger	conj
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	37 seen	mark
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 seen	nsubj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seen	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 seen	aux
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 seen	advmod
37	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 bigger	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the country		here		wild property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	walk	present	long		the underbrush			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through underbrush=Trajectory
3	enter	past	holes = hole	another forest				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination
4	is	past	the trees				big property	tree rules
5	be		the trees not said here					tree rules
6	see	past · perfect	any			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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