The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 39
Thanking the good woman, they started afresh and walked by the fields and across the pretty bridges until they saw before them a very beautiful Castle.
Who acts: roads · What happens: thank, start, walk, see · To what, where: good woman, beautiful Castle
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 (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 | Thanking | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 started | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thanking | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thanking | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 started | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 afresh | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bridges | cc |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 18 bridges | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bridges | det |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bridges | amod |
| 18 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fields | conj |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 saw | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 started | advcl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Castle | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Castle | amod |
| 27 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | gerund | roads = road not said here | the good woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | roads = road | afresh property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | walk | participle | roads = road not said here | by the fields and the pretty bridges | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by field=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | see | past | roads = road | a beautiful Castle | before bridges = bridge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |
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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