The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 2

The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good.

Who acts: dried branches, walking · What happens: pave, cover, dry, be · To what, where: road, these

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dried branches, walking), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paved	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paved	aux:pass
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 paved	advmod
5	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 brick	case
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brick	amod
8	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 covered	cc
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 covered	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux:pass
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 covered	advmod
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 paved	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 branches	case
16	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 branches	amod
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 covered	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leaves	cc
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 leaves	amod
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 branches	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 trees	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 trees	det
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 leaves	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 good	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 good	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 walking	det
27	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 good	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 good	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 all	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 all	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 good	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paved	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pave	past · passive		the road	still	with yellow brick	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brick=Theme
2	cover	past · passive	dried branches and dead leaves from the trees	these			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
3	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	the walking			good property	tree rules

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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