The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 2
Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around.
Who acts: bricks, Toto, Dorothy · What happens: be, leave, jump, walk around · To what, where: holes
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 (bricks, Toto, Dorothy), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 broken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sometimes | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 broken | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 broken | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 broken | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 broken | cop |
| 7 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 missing | cc |
| 9 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 broken | conj |
| 10 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 broken | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leaving | punct |
| 12 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 broken | advcl |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 leaving | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 jumped | obj |
| 15 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 jumped | nsubj |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 holes | acl:relcl |
| 17 | across | across | ADV | _ | 16 jumped | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walked | cc |
| 19 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 jumped | conj |
| 21 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 walked | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bricks = brick | altogether, broken, indeed, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | bricks = brick not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | bricks = brick not said here | holes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump | past | Toto | holes | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | walk around | past | Dorothy | around property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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