The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 19

It was a very wide ditch, and when they crept up to the edge and looked into it they could see it was also very deep, and there were many big, jagged rocks at the bottom.

Who acts: ditch, travelers, many big jagged rocks · What happens: be, creep up, look, see · To what, where: wide ditch, edge

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 (ditch, travelers, many big jagged rocks), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ditch	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ditch	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ditch	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wide	advmod
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ditch	amod
6	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crept	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crept	nsubj
11	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 crept	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 edge	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 edge	det
15	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crept	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ditch	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 deep	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 deep	cop
25	also	also	ADV	_	27 deep	advmod
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 deep	advmod
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 were	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 were	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 were	expl
31	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 see	advcl
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rocks	amod
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rocks	amod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 big	punct
35	jagged	jagged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rocks	amod
36	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 were	nsubj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 bottom	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bottom	det
39	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rocks	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ditch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ditch	a wide ditch			tree rules
2	creep up	past	travelers = traveler		the edge		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination
3	look	past	travelers = traveler not said here			into ditch	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into it=Theme
4	see	could	travelers = traveler				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	ditch			deep property	tree rules
6	be	past	many big jagged rocks at the bottom		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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