The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 107
So the Scarecrow followed him and was admitted into the great Throne Room, where he saw, sitting in the emerald throne, a most lovely Lady.
Who acts: Scarecrow, soldier · What happens: follow, admit, see, sit · To what, where: soldier, great Throne Room, emerald throne
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, soldier), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 followed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 admitted | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 admitted | aux:pass |
| 8 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 followed | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 Room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Room | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Room | amod |
| 12 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Room | compound |
| 13 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 admitted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sitting | punct |
| 19 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 saw | xcomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 22 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 throne | compound |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sitting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Lady | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Lady | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 lovely | advmod |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Lady | amod |
| 28 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 throne | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Scarecrow | soldier | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admit speech: other | past · passive | the Scarecrow not said here | the great Throne Room | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S» | ||||
| 3 | see | past | soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | soldier not said here | the emerald throne and a lovely Lady | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in throne=Location |
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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