The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 3
There were few birds in this part of the forest, for birds love the open country where there is plenty of sunshine.
Who acts: few birds, birds, plenty · What happens: be, love · To what, where: part, open country
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 (few birds, birds, plenty), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 birds | amod |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 love | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 birds | case |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 love | nsubj |
| 14 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 is | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 country | acl:relcl |
| 21 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sunshine | case |
| 23 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 plenty | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | few birds | this part of the forest; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location | ||||
| 2 | love | present | birds | the open country | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | present | plenty of sunshine | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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