The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 43
After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to the end of the woods and reach the bright sunshine again.
Who acts: leaps, Lion · What happens: rest, start, wonder, come, reach, mind · To what, where: Lion, each, end, bright sunshine
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 (leaps, Lion), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 rested | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lion | det |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rested | aux |
| 5 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 started | nsubj |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rested | ccomp |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 brick | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brick | amod |
| 13 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondering | punct |
| 15 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 16 wondering | advmod |
| 16 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rested | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 each | punct |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 wondering | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mind | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mind | amod |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 each | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 come | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rested | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 end | det |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 woods | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 woods | det |
| 34 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 end | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 reach | cc |
| 36 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sunshine | det |
| 38 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 sunshine | amod |
| 39 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reach | obj |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 reach | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · perfect · passive | the Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | start | past | leaps = leap | along the road of yellow brick | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | each | silently property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | would | leaps = leap | to the end of the woods; ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | reach | infinitive | leaps = leap not said here | the bright sunshine | again | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme | |||
| 6 | mind | Lion | nom mind «cognition 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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