The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 1
The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived.
Who acts: soldier, whiskers, Guardian · What happens: lead, reach, live · To what, where: whiskers, streets, room
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, whiskers, Guardian), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 whiskers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whiskers | det |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whiskers | amod |
| 6 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 soldier | nmod |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 streets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 streets | det |
| 11 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 City | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 City | det |
| 14 | Emerald | Emerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 City | compound |
| 15 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 streets | nmod |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 reached | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 lived | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Guardian | det |
| 23 | Guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Gates | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Gates | det |
| 26 | Gates | Gate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 Guardian | nmod |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 room | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the soldier with the green whiskers | whiskers = whisker | the streets of the Emerald City | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme through street=Destination | |||
| 2 | reach | past | whiskers = whisker | the room | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the Guardian of the Gates | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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