The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 59
They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.
Who acts: legs, sharp growl, two great beasts · What happens: start, cross, make, look up, see, run · To what, where: queer bridge, legs, two great beasts
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 (legs, sharp growl, two great beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:526): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cross | mark |
| 6 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 started | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bridge | det |
| 8 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bridge | amod |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cross | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 made | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 growl | det |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 growl | amod |
| 13 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | det |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 look | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 saw | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 horror | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horror | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 saw | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 26 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 saw | xcomp |
| 27 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 running | obl |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 beasts | nummod |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beasts | amod |
| 31 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 saw | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 bodies | case |
| 33 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 beasts | nmod |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 bears | case |
| 35 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bodies | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 heads | cc |
| 37 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bodies | conj |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 tigers | case |
| 39 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 heads | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect | legs = leg | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | legs = leg not said here | this queer bridge | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a sharp growl | legs = leg | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look up | infinitive | legs = leg not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | legs = leg | two great beasts | to legs's horror; with bodies like bears and heads like tigers | tree rules | |||
| 6 | run | gerund | two great beasts not said here | toward legs = leg | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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