The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 57
“After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.
Who acts: crows · What happens: go, think over, decide, try, get · To what, where: this, brains
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 (crows), 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 | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crows | det |
| 4 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 thought | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 decided | cc |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 try | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 try | aux |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | xcomp |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 try | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | xcomp |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 brains | det |
| 21 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past · perfect | the crows | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think over speech: other in a quote | past | crows = crow | this | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | |||
| 3 | decide in a quote | past | crows = crow not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try not said to happen, in a quote | would | crows = crow | hard property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | crows = crow not said here | some brains | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus |
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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