The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 11
Once more they could see fences built beside the road; but these were painted green, and when they came to a small house, in which a farmer evidently lived, that also was painted green.
Who acts: travelers, farmer · What happens: see, build, paint, come, live · To what, where: fences, road, these, small house, that
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 (travelers, farmer), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 see | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fences | acl |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 painted | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 painted | cc |
| 13 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 painted | aux:pass |
| 15 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | parataxis |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 painted | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 came | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 painted | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 house | amod |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lived | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 lived | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 farmer | det |
| 30 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 32 lived | advmod |
| 32 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 painted | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 painted | advmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 painted | aux:pass |
| 37 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 lived | advcl |
| 38 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 painted | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | travelers = traveler | fences | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fence=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | fences not said here | the road | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | paint | past · passive | these | green property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | past | travelers = traveler | a small house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | live | past | a farmer | evidently property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 6 | paint | past · passive | that | green property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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