The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 16

The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely:

Who acts: soldier, strangers · What happens: make, wipe, enter, seat, say · To what, where: strangers, feet, green mat, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, strangers), 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 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 wipe	advmod
6	wipe	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wipe	obj
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 mat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mat	det
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mat	amod
12	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wipe	obl
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 entering	mark
14	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wipe	advcl
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 entering	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 seated	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seated	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 seated	aux:pass
22	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 said	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
25	politely	politely	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the soldier	strangers = stranger			tree rules
2	wipe	present	strangers = stranger not said here	strangers's feet	a green mat		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon mat=Trajectory
3	enter	gerund	strangers = stranger not said here	this room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
4	seat	past · passive		strangers = stranger			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
5	say speech: assert	past	soldier			politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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