The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 1
They were obliged to camp out that night under a large tree in the forest, for there were no houses near.
Who acts: houses · What happens: oblige, camp out, be · To what, where: They, large tree
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 camp | mark |
| 5 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 obliged | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 camp | compound:prt |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camp | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camp | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 camp | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 were | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 houses | det |
| 21 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 19 were | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | They | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | camp out | to-infinitive | a large tree | night | in the forest | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | be | past | no houses | there | near property | 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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