The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 12

There was a soldier before the door, dressed in a green uniform and wearing a long green beard.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, dress, wear · To what, where: door, green uniform, long green beard

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 (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 soldier	det
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dressed	punct
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 door	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 uniform	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 uniform	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 uniform	amod
13	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wearing	cc
15	wearing	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 uniform	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 beard	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beard	amod
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beard	amod
19	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wearing	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	a soldier		the door; there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before door=Location
2	dress	participle		the door not said here	a green uniform	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear	gerund		a long green beard		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent beard=Source

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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