The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 18

They had hardly been walking an hour when they saw before them a great ditch that crossed the road and divided the forest as far as they could see on either side.

Who acts: travelers, great ditch · What happens: walk, see, cross, divide · To what, where: great ditch, road, forest, side

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 (travelers, great ditch), 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	5 walking	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 saw	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	advcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 ditch	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ditch	amod
15	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 crossed	nsubj
17	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ditch	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crossed	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 divided	cc
21	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 crossed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 divided	obj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 divided	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 far	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	32 side	det
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect · progressive	travelers = traveler			hour	hardly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	travelers = traveler	a great ditch		before nuts = nut		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ditch=Stimulus
3	cross	past	a great ditch	the road				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	divide	past	a great ditch not said here	the forest			far property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
5	see	could	travelers = traveler		either side			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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