The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 54

“Oz keeps a great pot of courage in his Throne Room,” said the man, “which he has covered with a golden plate, to keep it from running over.

Who acts: Oz, man · What happens: keep, say, cover, run over · To what, where: great pot, courage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Oz, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
2	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pot	amod
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 courage	case
8	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 Room	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Room	nmod:poss
11	Throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Room	compound
12	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 courage	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 covered	nsubj:pass
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 covered	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 covered	aux
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 plate	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plate	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 plate	amod
27	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 keep	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 covered	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 keep	obj
32	from	from	SCONJ	_	33 running	mark
33	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 keep	advcl
34	over	over	ADV	_	33 running	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	Oz	a great pot of courage in man's Throne Room		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cover in a quote	present · perfect · passive			with a golden plate	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plate=Theme
4	keep in a quote	to-infinitive		courage		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	run over in a quote	gerund			over property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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