The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 20
The sides were so steep that none of them could climb down, and for a moment it seemed that their journey must end.
Who acts: sides, none, it, journey, travelers · What happens: be, climb down, seem, end, journey
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 (sides, none, it, journey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sides | det |
| 2 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 steep | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 steep | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 steep | advmod |
| 5 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 climb | mark |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 climb | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 none | nmod |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 climb | aux |
| 11 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 steep | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 climb | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 steep | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 end | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 end | aux |
| 24 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 steep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sides | steep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb down | could | none | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | it | moment | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | end | must | travelers's journey | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | journey | travelers = traveler | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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