The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 87
“At the East, not far from here,” said one, “there is a great desert, and none could live to cross it.”
Who acts: great desert, none · What happens: say, be, live, cross · To what, where: one, desert · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great desert, none), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 East | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 East | det |
| 4 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 far | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 said | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 here | case |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 far | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 is | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 desert | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 desert | amod |
| 20 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 live | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 live | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 cross | mark |
| 27 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 live | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 cross | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one | far property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a great desert | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | could | none | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cross in a quote | to-infinitive | none not said here | desert | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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