The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 5
The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back.
Who acts: farms · What happens: not care, be · To what, where: farms
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 (farms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:272): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farms | det |
| 2 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cared | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 cared | advmod |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 so | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 cared | advmod |
| 8 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 cared | obl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 cared | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 back | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 back | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 back | cop |
| 14 | farther | farther | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 back | advmod |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 so | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · passive | the farms | here | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | farms = farm | back, farther 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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