The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 78
Before them stood a little man about the same size as the Munchkins.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: stand · To what, where: little man
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 (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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 size | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 size | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 size | amod |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 Munchkins | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Munchkins | det |
| 13 | Munchkins | munchkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | eyes = eye | a little man | about the same size; as the Munchkins | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme about size=Destination |
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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