The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 27
So they all entered the house, where there were, besides the woman, two children and a man.
Who acts: supper, house · What happens: enter, be
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 (supper, house), 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 | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 were | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 woman | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 12 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 children | nummod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woman | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 man | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 children | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | supper | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the house | besides the woman | tree rules |
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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