The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 2

“That will be a hard climb,” said the Scarecrow, “but we must get over the hill, nevertheless.”

Who acts: That, hard climb, we · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: hard climb, Scarecrow, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, hard climb, we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 climb	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 climb	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 climb	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 climb	amod
7	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Scarecrow	det
12	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 get	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 get	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 get	aux
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 hill	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hill	det
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nevertheless	punct
23	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	18 get	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	future	That	a hard climb			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a hard climb	the Scarecrow			tree rules
3	get in a quote	must	we		the hill	nevertheless property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over hill=Destination

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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