The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 7
There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
Who acts: lovely patches, stately trees · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: rich fruits
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely patches, stately 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 patches | amod |
| 4 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 greensward | case |
| 6 | greensward | greensward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 patches | nmod |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 about | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 were | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trees | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 trees | amod |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 13 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 trees | acl |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fruits | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 luscious | cc |
| 16 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rich | conj |
| 17 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bearing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | lovely patches of greensward | there | about property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | gerund | stately trees not said here | rich fruits | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
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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