The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 83

The man was so surprised at this answer that he sat down to think it over.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, sit down, think over · To what, where: answer

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 (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 answer	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 answer	det
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 think	mark
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sat	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 think	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	14 think	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man		this answer	surprised property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	man			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think over speech: other	to-infinitive	man not said here	answer			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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