The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 17
This was to be an eventful day for the travelers.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: eventful day
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 day | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 day | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 day | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | eventful | eventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 travelers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 travelers | det |
| 10 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 day | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a eventful day | for the travelers | 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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