The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 76

This adventure made the travelers more anxious than ever to get out of the forest, and they walked so fast that Dorothy became tired, and had to ride on the Lion’s back.

Who acts: adventure, travelers, Dorothy · What happens: make, get out, walk, become, have, ride · To what, where: travelers, forest

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 (adventure, travelers, Dorothy), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 adventure	det
2	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 travelers	det
5	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 anxious	advmod
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 travelers	amod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 anxious	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anxious	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 forest	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 walked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walked	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 walked	nsubj
19	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 fast	advmod
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 walked	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 became	mark
23	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 walked	advcl
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 became	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ’s	csubj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ride	mark
30	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 Lion	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Lion	det
33	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 ride	obl
34	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 ’s	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	this adventure	the travelers		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset traveler=Product
2	get out	to-infinitive	this adventure not said here	the forest		tree rules
3	walk	past	travelers = traveler		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	Dorothy		tired property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	have	past				tree rules
6	ride	to-infinitive			on the Lion	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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