The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 72

As they walked on, the green glow became brighter and brighter, and it seemed that at last they were nearing the end of their travels.

Who acts: doors, green glow, it · What happens: walk on, become, seem, near, travel · To what, where: end, last

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 (doors, green glow, it), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 walked	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 became	advcl
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glow	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 glow	amod
8	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 became	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brighter	cc
12	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 brighter	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 became	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 nearing	mark
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nearing	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 nearing	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 nearing	aux
22	nearing	near	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seemed	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nearing	obj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 travels	mark
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 travels	nmod:poss
27	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 end	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	doors = door				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	the green glow			bright property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	near	past · progressive	doors = door	the end	last		tree rules
5	travel	present	doors = door not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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