The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 1

After a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so difficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow bricks, which were here very uneven.

Who acts: road, walking, yellow bricks · What happens: begin, be, grow, stumble · To what, where: Scarecrow, yellow bricks

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, walking, yellow bricks), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 hours	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hours	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 rough	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rough	cop
10	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walking	det
14	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 difficult	advmod
17	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 stumbled	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Scarecrow	det
20	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stumbled	nsubj:pass
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 stumbled	advmod
22	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 difficult	advcl
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 bricks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bricks	det
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bricks	amod
26	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stumbled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 here	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 here	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 here	cop
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 bricks	advmod
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 uneven	advmod
32	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 here	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the road			hour		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	to-infinitive	the road not said here				rough property	tree rules
3	grow	past	the walking					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stumble	participle · passive		the Scarecrow	the yellow bricks		often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	the yellow bricks				here property	tree rules

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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