The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 45

These people had nothing to do but talk to each other, but they always came to wait outside the Throne Room every morning, although they were never permitted to see Oz. As Dorothy entered they looked at her curiously, and one of them whispered:

Who acts: people, Dorothy, one · What happens: have, do, talk, come, wait, not permit · To what, where: nothing, Throne Room, people, Oz.

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 (people, Dorothy, one), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 talk	cc
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 talk	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 wait	mark
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	xcomp
19	outside	outside	ADP	_	22 Room	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Room	det
21	Throne	Throne	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Room	compound
22	Room	Room	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 morning	det
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 permitted	punct
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	30 permitted	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 permitted	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 permitted	aux:pass
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 permitted	advmod
30	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wait	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 permitted	xcomp
33	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
34	As	as	SCONJ	_	36 entered	mark
35	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 entered	nsubj
36	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 see	advcl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 looked	nsubj
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 entered	ccomp
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 curiously	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 curiously	nmod:poss
41	curiously	curiously	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 looked	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 whispered	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 whispered	cc
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 whispered	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 one	nmod
47	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	this people	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	this people not said here	nothing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	talk	infinitive	this people not said here				to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
4	come	past	people				always property	tree rules
5	wait	to-infinitive	people not said here		the Throne Room	morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside room=Location
6	not permit	past · passive		people				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		Oz.				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oz.=Stimulus
8	enter	past	Dorothy					tree rules
9	look	past	Dorothy				at Toto's curiously	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at curiously=Theme
10	whisper speech: assert	past	one of Dorothy					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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