The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 24
Neither can we climb down into this great ditch.
Who acts: we · What happens: climb down · To what, where: great ditch
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 (we), 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 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 climb | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 climb | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 ditch | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 ditch | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ditch | amod |
| 9 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climb | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | can | we | this great ditch | down, neither property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ditch=Destination |
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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