The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 100

So they sat down and listened while he told the following tale.

Who acts: chairs, plenty · What happens: sit down, listen, tell, follow · To what, where: following tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (chairs, plenty), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 listened	cc
6	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 listened	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tale	det
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 tale	amod
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit down	past	chairs = chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	past	chairs = chair not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	plenty	the following tale	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
4	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «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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