The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 65
Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick.
Who acts: fences, trees, branches · What happens: come, grow, meet · To what, where: great forest, road
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, trees, branches), 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 | Toward | toward | ADP | _ | 2 evening | case |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 grew | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 big | advmod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 close | cc |
| 17 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 big | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 close | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 met | mark |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 branches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 met | nsubj |
| 22 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 big | advcl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 road | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 met | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 brick | case |
| 27 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brick | amod |
| 28 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 road | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | fences = fence | a great forest | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the trees | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | participle | fences's branches | the road of yellow brick | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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