The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 39
He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and even those who wait upon him do not see him face to face.”
Who acts: person, those, Palace · What happens: sit, wait, not see, face · To what, where: great Throne Room, Palace
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 (person, those, Palace), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Room | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Room | amod |
| 9 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Room | compound |
| 10 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sits | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Palace | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Room | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wait | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 those | advmod |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 wait | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 wait | nsubj |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | parataxis |
| 20 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 see | advmod |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wait | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 see | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | person | the great Throne Room of person's Palace | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||
| 2 | wait | present | those | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not see | present · do-support | person | Palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | face | infinitive | Palace not said here | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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