The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 55
The country here is rich and pleasant, but you must pass through rough and dangerous places before you reach the end of your journey.”
Who acts: country, you, your · What happens: be, pass through, reach, journey · To what, where: rough places, end
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 (country, you, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 country | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rich | cop |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pleasant | cc |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rich | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pass | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pass | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pass | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pass | aux |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rich | parataxis |
| 13 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 pass | advmod |
| 14 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 places | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dangerous | cc |
| 16 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rough | conj |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pass | obj |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 reach | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pass | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reach | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 journey | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 journey | nmod:poss |
| 25 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the country | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the country not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pass through | must | you | rough places | through property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | reach | present | you | the end of your journey | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 5 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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