The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 31
There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.
Who acts: field, paved roads · What happens: be, ripen, pave, run · To what, where: field, grain
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 (field, paved roads), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 ripening | mark |
| 7 | ripening | ripen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 field | acl |
| 8 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ripening | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 roads | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 roads | case |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 paved | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 roads | amod |
| 14 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ripening | obl |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 roads | acl |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 running | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brooks | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brooks | cc |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brooks | amod |
| 20 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brooks | compound |
| 21 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 was | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 bridges | case |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bridges | amod |
| 24 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 brooks | nmod |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bridges | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | field | field; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon field=Location | ||||
| 2 | ripen | gerund | field not said here | grain | with paved roads | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grain=Patient with road=Instrument | |||
| 3 | pave | participle | well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | paved roads not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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