The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 1

The four travelers walked up to the great gate of Emerald City and rang the bell.

Who acts: four travelers · What happens: walk up, ring · To what, where: bell

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four travelers), 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	3 travelers	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 travelers	nummod
3	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 walked	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gate	amod
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 City	case
11	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 City	compound
12	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gate	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rang	cc
14	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bell	det
16	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rang	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk up	past	the four travelers					to the great gate of Emerald City result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to gate=Result
2	ring	past	the four travelers not said here	the bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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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