The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 77

Then the big gate swung slowly open, and they all passed through and found themselves in a high arched room, the walls of which glistened with countless emeralds.

Who acts: big gate, eyes · What happens: swing, pass through, find, arch, glisten · To what, where: eyes, high arched room

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 (big gate, eyes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 swung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gate	amod
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swung	nsubj
5	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 open	advmod
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swung	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 passed	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 passed	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 passed	advmod
12	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swung	parataxis
13	through	through	ADP	_	12 passed	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 passed	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 found	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 room	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 room	det
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 room	amod
20	arched	arch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 room	amod
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walls	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 walls	det
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 room	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 glistened	obl
27	glistened	glisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 walls	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 emeralds	case
29	countless	countless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 emeralds	amod
30	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glistened	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	the big gate			then	open property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	pass through	past	eyes = eye					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	eyes = eye not said here	eyes = eye	a high arched room the walls			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
4	arch	participle						vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	glisten	participle					of the walls; with countless emeralds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with emerald=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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