The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 77

To their great joy the trees became thinner the farther they advanced, and in the afternoon they suddenly came upon a broad river, flowing swiftly just before them.

Who acts: trees, travelers · What happens: become, advance, come, flow, joy · To what, where: broad river

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 (trees, travelers), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 joy	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 joy	nmod:poss
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 joy	amod
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trees	det
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 became	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farther	det
10	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 became	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 advanced	nsubj
12	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 farther	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 afternoon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 afternoon	det
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
19	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 river	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 river	det
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 river	amod
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flowing	punct
26	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
27	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	26 flowing	advmod
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 before	advmod
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flowing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the trees			to travelers's great joy; far, thin property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	advance	past	travelers = traveler				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	travelers = traveler	a broad river	afternoon	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon river=Location
4	flow	gerund	travelers = traveler not said here		before travelers = traveler	swiftly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
5	joy		travelers = traveler				nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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