The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 44
First they came to a great hall in which were many ladies and gentlemen of the court, all dressed in rich costumes.
Who acts: Dorothy, great hall, many ladies · What happens: come, be, dress · To what, where: great hall, many ladies, all, rich costumes
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 (Dorothy, great hall, many ladies), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ladies | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ladies | cop |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ladies | amod |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hall | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gentlemen | cc |
| 14 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 court | det |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gentlemen | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dressed | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ladies | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 costumes | case |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 costumes | amod |
| 23 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dressed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Dorothy | a great hall | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a great hall | many ladies and gentlemen of the court | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle · passive | many ladies and gentlemen of the court not said here | all | rich costumes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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