The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 80
So the Scarecrow led her through the trees until they reached the cottage, and Dorothy entered and found a bed of dried leaves in one corner.
Who acts: Scarecrow, trees, Dorothy · What happens: lead, reach, enter, find, dry · To what, where: child, trees, cottage, bed, one corner
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 (Scarecrow, trees, Dorothy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obl |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cottage | det |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 entered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 entered | cc |
| 16 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | nsubj |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 entered | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 leaves | case |
| 23 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 leaves | amod |
| 24 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bed | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 corner | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 corner | nummod |
| 27 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Scarecrow | child | the trees | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach | past | trees = tree | the cottage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Dorothy | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | Dorothy not said here | a bed of dried leaves | one corner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic | |||
| 5 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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