The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 3

They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.

Who acts: streets, window panes, sky, rays · What happens: walk, join, be, set, glitter, have · To what, where: pavement, blocks, rows, brightness, green tint, sun

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 (streets, window panes, sky, rays), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 pavement	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pavement	det
5	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 marble	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 marble	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 marble	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 marble	amod
10	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pavement	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 joined	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 joined	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 joined	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blocks	det
15	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 joined	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 joined	aux:pass
17	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 walked	conj
18	together	together	ADV	_	20 rows	advmod
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rows	cop
20	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 joined	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 emeralds	case
22	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rows	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
24	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 rows	acl
25	closely	closely	ADV	_	24 set	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glittering	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 glittering	cc
28	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 brightness	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 brightness	det
31	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glittering	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sun.	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sun.	det
34	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 brightness	nmod
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 panes	det
36	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 panes	compound
37	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 glass	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 glass	cop
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 glass	case
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 glass	amod
41	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brightness	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 had	punct
43	even	even	ADV	_	45 sky	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sky	det
45	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	nsubj
46	above	above	ADP	_	48 City	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 City	det
48	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 sky	nmod
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	parataxis
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 tint	det
51	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 tint	amod
52	tint	tint	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 green	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 green	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 rays	det
56	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 green	nsubj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 sun	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 sun	det
59	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 rays	nmod
60	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 green	cop
61	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 had	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	streets = street		a pavement of the same green marble		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pavement=Trajectory
2	join	past · passive		the blocks			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past		rows		of emeralds; together property	tree rules
4	set	participle		rows not said here		closely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	glitter	gerund	streets = street not said here		the brightness of the sun. and green glass		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brightness=Location
6	is	past	the window panes			of green glass	tree rules
7	have	past	the sky above the City	a green tint			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tint=Patient
8	is	past	the rays of the sun			green property	tree rules
9	ray			the sun			nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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