The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 47
But my feet would not touch the ground, and I was forced to stay on that pole.
Who acts: feet, I · What happens: not touch, force, stay · To what, where: ground, I, pole
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 (feet, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 touch | cc |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 touch | advmod |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forced | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forced | aux:pass |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 touch | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stay | mark |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forced | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 pole | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 pole | det |
| 18 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | would | my feet | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | I not said here | that pole | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pole=Location |
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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