The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 23
There were several roads nearby, but it did not take her long to find the one paved with yellow bricks.
Who acts: several roads, it · What happens: be, not take, find, pave · To what, where: long, one
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several roads, it), 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 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 roads | amod |
| 4 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 2 were | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 were | parataxis |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 long | nmod:poss |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 one | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 bricks | case |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bricks | amod |
| 21 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 paved | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | several roads | there | nearby property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not take | past · do-support | it | Dorothy's long | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent long=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pave | participle | the one not said here | with yellow bricks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with brick=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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