The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 67
“If this road goes in, it must come out,” said the Scarecrow, “and as the Emerald City is at the other end of the road, we must go wherever it leads us.”
Who acts: road, Scarecrow, Emerald City, we, City · What happens: go in, come out, say, be, go, lead · To what, where: other end, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (road, Scarecrow, Emerald City, we), 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 | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 goes | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 road | det |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 goes | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Scarecrow | det |
| 16 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 end | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 end | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 City | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 City | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 City | det |
| 22 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 City | compound |
| 23 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 end | cop |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 end | amod |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Scarecrow | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 road | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 road | det |
| 31 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 go | nsubj |
| 34 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 go | aux |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 36 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 leads | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 leads | nsubj |
| 38 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 go | advcl |
| 39 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 leads | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this road | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come out in a quote | must | road | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Emerald City | at the other end | of the road | tree rules | |||
| 5 | go in a quote | must | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead in a quote | present | City | us | wherever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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