The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 73
Yet it was afternoon before they came to the great wall that surrounded the City.
Who acts: glow, doors · What happens: be, come, surround · To what, where: afternoon, great wall
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 (glow, doors), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 afternoon | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afternoon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afternoon | cop |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 afternoon | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wall | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wall | amod |
| 11 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wall | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 City | det |
| 15 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afternoon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | glow | afternoon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | doors = door | afternoon not said here | to the great wall | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location afternoon=Theme | |||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | the great wall | tree rules |
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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