The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 20

So, when they came to a good-sized farmhouse, Dorothy walked boldly up to the door and knocked.

Who acts: people, Dorothy · What happens: come, size, walk, knock · To what, where: sized farmhouse, door

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 (people, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	11 farmhouse	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 farmhouse	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sized	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
10	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 farmhouse	amod
11	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walked	punct
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 walked	nsubj
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 walked	advmod
16	up	up	ADP	_	19 door	case
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 door	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knocked	cc
21	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 walked	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	people	a sized farmhouse		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmhouse=Initial_Location
2	size	participle				tree rules
3	walk	past	Dorothy	the door	boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up door=Trajectory
4	knock	past	Dorothy not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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