The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 71
After an hour or so the light faded away, and they found themselves stumbling along in the darkness.
Who acts: light, brains · What happens: fade away, find, stumble · To what, where: brains, darkness
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 (light, brains), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faded | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 so | cc |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 faded | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faded | nsubj |
| 8 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 faded | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 faded | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 stumbling | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 darkness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 darkness | det |
| 19 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stumbling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 faded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade away | past | the light | hour | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past | brains = brain | brains = brain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stumble | gerund | brains = brain not said here | the darkness | along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Trajectory |
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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