The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 4
There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and these were all dressed in green clothes and had greenish skins.
Who acts: many people · What happens: be, walk, dress, have · To what, where: these, green clothes, greenish skins
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 (many people), 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 men | punct |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 people | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 women | punct |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 men | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 children | cc |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 men | appos |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 children | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dressed | cc |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dressed | aux:pass |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 dressed | advmod |
| 20 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 were | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 clothes | case |
| 22 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clothes | amod |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 dressed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dressed | conj |
| 26 | greenish | greenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 skins | amod |
| 27 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 had | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many people and men and women | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | many people and men and women not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dress | past · passive | these | green clothes | all property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | past | greenish skins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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