The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 9

There seemed to be no horses nor animals of any kind; the men carried things around in little green carts, which they pushed before them.

Who acts: men, little green carts · What happens: seem, be, carry, push · To what, where: horses, things, little green carts

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 (men, little green carts), 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 seemed	expl
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 horses	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 horses	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 horses	det
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seemed	xcomp
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 animals	cc
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 horses	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kind	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	nsubj
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	conj
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obj
17	around	around	ADP	_	21 carts	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 carts	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 carts	amod
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 carts	amod
21	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pushed	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pushed	nsubj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pushed	nsubj
25	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 carts	acl:relcl
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pushed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seem	past			there		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		no horses nor animals of any kind			tree rules
3	carry	past	the men	things	little green carts		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	push	past	little green carts			before men = man	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent before they=Trajectory

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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