The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 66
Without stopping an instant the fierce beasts also began to cross the tree.
What happens: stop, begin, cross · To what, where: instant, tree
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: 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 stopping | mark |
| 2 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 began | advcl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 instant | det |
| 4 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopping | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 6 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beasts | amod |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stopping | obj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cross | mark |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cross | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | a instant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | the tree | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
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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