The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 39

It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.

Who acts: room, dog, little spider · What happens: not rest, lie down, not close, remain, stare, weave · To what, where: dog, eyes, web, corner

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 (room, dog, little spider), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rest	advmod
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rest	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rest	xcomp
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 lie	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 close	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 close	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 close	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 close	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 close	advmod
14	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rest	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 close	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 remained	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 remained	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remained	nsubj
20	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rest	parataxis
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obl:unmarked
23	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 remained	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 spider	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 spider	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 spider	amod
27	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 staring	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 weaving	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 weaving	aux
30	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 spider	acl:relcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 web	nmod:poss
32	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weaving	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 corner	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 corner	det
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 weaving	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 room	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 room	det
38	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 corner	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 one	punct
40	just	just	ADV	_	46 one	advmod
41	as	as	ADP	_	46 one	case
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 one	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 one	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 one	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 one	advmod
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 staring	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 rooms	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 rooms	det
49	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	50 wonderful	advmod
50	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 rooms	amod
51	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 one	nmod
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 world	det
54	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rooms	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rest	would	room	dog				tree rules
2	lie down	to-infinitive	room not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not close	could	dog	dog's eyes				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	remain	past	dog			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stare	gerund	dog not said here				at a little spider	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spider=Theme
6	weave	past · progressive	a little spider	room's web	a corner of the room			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product
7	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	room				as one; of the wonderful rooms in the world	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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