The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 68

The woman now gave Dorothy a bed to sleep in, and Toto lay down beside her, while the Lion guarded the door of her room so she might not be disturbed.

Who acts: woman, Toto, Lion · What happens: give, sleep in, lie down, guard, not disturb · To what, where: bed, Dorothy, door, woman

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 (woman, Toto, Lion), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gave	advmod
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gave	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bed	det
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sleep	mark
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 sleep	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lay	cc
13	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 lay	advmod
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 guarded	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 guarded	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Lion	det
21	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 guarded	nsubj
22	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lay	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guarded	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 room	nmod:poss
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	nmod
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 disturbed	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 disturbed	nsubj:pass
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 disturbed	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 disturbed	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 disturbed	aux:pass
33	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 guarded	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the woman	a bed	Dorothy	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient bed=Theme
2	sleep in	to-infinitive	the woman not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie down	past	Toto				beside woman; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
4	guard	past	the Lion	the door of woman's room				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Beneficiary
5	not disturb	might · passive		woman				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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