The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 29
They seemed greatly surprised to see so strange a company, and while the woman was busy laying the table the man asked:
Who acts: supper, woman · What happens: seem, see, be, lay, ask · To what, where: strange company, table
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, woman), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 surprised | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 strange | advmod |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 company | amod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 busy | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 busy | cop |
| 17 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 busy | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 table | det |
| 20 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laying | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laying | obj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | supper | surprised property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | supper not said here | a strange company | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the woman | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay | gerund | the woman not said here | the table | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent table=Theme man=Destination | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | supper not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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