The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 66
It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.
Who acts: Land, branches, travelers · What happens: be, shut out, not stop, go on · To what, where: trees, daylight, forest
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 (Land, branches, travelers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dark | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 dark | advmod |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dark | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branches | det |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shut | nsubj |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dark | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daylight | det |
| 15 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 stop | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 stop | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 travelers | det |
| 19 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stop | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stop | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 stop | advmod |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 dark | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stop | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Land | the trees | almost, dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shut out | participle | the branches | the daylight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent daylight=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not stop | past · do-support | the travelers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go on | past | the travelers not said here | the forest | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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