The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 44
To add to their discomfort, they soon heard strange noises in the depths of the forest, and the Lion whispered to them that it was in this part of the country that the Kalidahs lived.
Who acts: leaps, Lion, forest, Kalidahs · What happens: add, hear, whisper, be, live · To what, where: strange noises, depths, leaps, part, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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, forest, Kalidahs), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 add | mark |
| 2 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 discomfort | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 discomfort | nmod:poss |
| 5 | discomfort | discomfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 add | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 add | parataxis |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 noises | amod |
| 11 | noises | noise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 depths | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whispered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 whispered | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Lion | det |
| 21 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 whispered | nsubj |
| 22 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 whispered | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 part | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 part | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 part | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 part | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 part | det |
| 30 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 whispered | ccomp |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 part | nmod |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 lived | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Kalidahs | det |
| 36 | Kalidahs | Kalidahs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 lived | nsubj |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 country | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | to leaps's discomfort | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to discomfort=Co-Patient | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | leaps = leap | strange noises | the depths of the forest | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | the Lion | leaps = leap | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | forest | this part | of the country | tree rules | |||
| 5 | live | past | the Kalidahs | the country not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme country=Location |
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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