The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 64

There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled.

Who acts: fences, land · What happens: be, until

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 (fences, land), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fences	det
4	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fences	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 roadside	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roadside	det
9	roadside	roadside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 all	nmod
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rough	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rough	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rough	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rough	cop
16	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 untilled	cc
18	untilled	until	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rough	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no fences at all	there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the land			rough property	tree rules
3	until	participle	the land not said here				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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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