The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 38
“Take the road to the South and you will soon reach it.”
Who acts: you · What happens: take, reach · To what, where: road, South, door
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 South | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 South | det |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reach | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 reach | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 reach | advmod |
| 12 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Take | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reach | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the road | the South | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to south=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach in a quote | future | you | door | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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