The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 78
On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.
Who acts: travelers, yellow brick, trees · What happens: see, run, dot, border, hang · To what, where: road, other side, beautiful country, green meadows
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 (travelers, yellow brick, trees), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brick | case |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brick | amod |
| 15 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 road | nmod |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 brick | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 running | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 meadows | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 meadows | case |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 meadows | amod |
| 24 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obl |
| 25 | dotted | dot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 meadows | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 27 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 flowers | amod |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dotted | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 road | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 road | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meadows | conj |
| 33 | bordered | border | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 road | acl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 trees | case |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bordered | obl:agent |
| 36 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 trees | acl |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hanging | xcomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 fruits | case |
| 39 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fruits | amod |
| 40 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 full | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | travelers = traveler | the road of yellow brick | the other side | of the water; with green meadows and all road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | run | gerund | yellow brick not said here | a beautiful country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | dot | participle | green meadows and all road not said here | with bright flowers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | border | participle | all road not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | trees not said here | full property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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