The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 103

Taking a big golden key from a peg on the wall, he opened another gate, and they all followed him through the portal into the streets of the Emerald City.

Who acts: gate, glasses · What happens: take, open, follow · To what, where: big golden key, peg, gate, portal

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, glasses), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 opened	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 key	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 key	amod
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 key	amod
5	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 peg	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peg	det
8	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 wall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peg	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 opened	nsubj
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 followed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 followed	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 followed	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 followed	advmod
21	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 opened	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 followed	obj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 portal	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 portal	det
25	portal	portal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 followed	obl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 streets	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 streets	det
28	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 followed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 City	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 City	det
31	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 City	compound
32	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 streets	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund	gate not said here	a big golden key	a peg on the wall		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent key=Theme from peg=Initial_Location
2	open	past	gate	another gate			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme
3	follow	past	glasses = glass	gate	the portal	into the streets of the Emerald City	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through portal=Trajectory

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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