The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 53

It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party, for soon after they had begun their journey again they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass.

Who acts: rain, brains, trees, travelers · What happens: be, have, join, begin, come, grow · To what, where: bit, new comrade, party, journey, place

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain, brains, trees, 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 bit	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 join	obl:unmarked
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 luck	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 join	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 comrade	nmod:poss
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comrade	amod
12	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
13	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 party	det
15	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 join	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begun	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 begun	mark
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 begun	advmod
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 begun	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begun	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 begun	aux
22	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 journey	nmod:poss
24	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begun	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 begun	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 join	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 grew	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grew	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 branches	cc
35	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 trees	conj
36	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 place	acl:relcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 thick	advmod
38	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grew	xcomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 road	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 road	det
41	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 thick	obl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 pass	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 travelers	det
44	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 pass	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 pass	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 pass	advmod
47	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 thick	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	rain	a bit			of good luck	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive		brains's new comrade				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient
3	join	present		the party				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
4	begin	past · perfect	brains = brain	brains's journey		again	soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality
5	come	past	brains = brain		a place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
6	grow	past	the trees and branches				thick property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not pass	could	the travelers					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	journey		brains = brain					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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