The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 11

The Guardian of the Gates led them through the streets until they came to a big building, exactly in the middle of the City, which was the Palace of Oz, the Great Wizard.

Who acts: Guardian, Gates, City · What happens: lead, come, be · To what, where: Gates, streets, middle, Palace

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 (Guardian, Gates, City), 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 Guardian	det
2	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 led	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Gates	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Gates	det
5	Gates	Gate	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Guardian	nmod
6	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 led	obj
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 streets	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 streets	det
10	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 led	obl
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 led	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 building	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 building	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 building	amod
17	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 middle	punct
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 middle	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 middle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 middle	det
22	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 City	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 City	det
25	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 middle	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Palace	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 Palace	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Palace	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Palace	det
30	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 City	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Oz	case
32	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Palace	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Wizard	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Wizard	det
35	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Wizard	amod
36	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 City	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the Guardian of the Gates	Gates = gate	the streets		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through street=Destination
2	come	past	Gates = gate		the middle of the City and the Palace and the Great Wizard	to a big building	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to building=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	the City and the Palace and the Great Wizard	the Palace		of Oz	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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