The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 68
“We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.
Who acts: arms · What happens: lose, tear · To what, where: We, us
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 (arms), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tear | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 tear | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tear | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tear | aux |
| 9 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 10 tear | advmod |
| 10 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lost | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tear | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tear | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 claws | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 claws | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 claws | amod |
| 17 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present · passive | We | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tear in a quote | future | arms = arm | us | to pieces with arms's sharp claws result; surely property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent we=Patient to piece=Result |
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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