The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 5

But at noon, when the sun was over their heads, they did not know which was east and which was west, and that was the reason they were lost in the great fields.

Who acts: sun, travelers, that · What happens: be, not know, lose · To what, where: heads, reason, travelers, great fields

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, travelers, that), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 noon	case
3	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heads	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heads	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heads	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heads	cop
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 heads	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heads	nmod:poss
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 noon	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 noon	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 east	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 east	cop
19	east	east	ADV	_	16 know	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 west	cc
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 west	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 west	cop
23	west	west	ADV	_	19 east	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reason	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 reason	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 reason	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 reason	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 reason	det
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	parataxis
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lost	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lost	aux:pass
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 reason	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 fields	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fields	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fields	amod
36	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lost	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun		travelers's heads			tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	travelers = traveler			noon		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past					east property	tree rules
4	is	past					west property	tree rules
5	is a	past	that	the reason				tree rules
6	lose	past · passive		travelers = traveler	the great fields			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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