The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 45
“I did not like to be deserted this way.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: not like, desert · To what, where: way
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 (farmer), 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 | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 deserted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 deserted | aux:pass |
| 8 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 like | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deserted | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | past · do-support | the farmer = farmer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | desert not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the farmer = farmer not said here | this way | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V» |
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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