The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 50
The Lion was about to reply when suddenly they came to another gulf across the road.
Who acts: Lion, tastes · What happens: be, reply, come · To what, where: road
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 (Lion, tastes), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 reply | mark |
| 6 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reply | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 gulf | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 gulf | det |
| 13 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Lion | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | tastes = taste | the road | to another gulf; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to gulf=Initial_Location across road=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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