The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 14
Then he led them into his little room and locked the spectacles from the great box on all their eyes, just as he had done before.
Who acts: man · What happens: lead, lock, do · To what, where: travelers, little room, spectacles, great box
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 (man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 locked | cc |
| 10 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spectacles | det |
| 12 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 locked | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 box | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 box | amod |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 locked | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 eyes | det:predet |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 locked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 done | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 led | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 done | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | man | travelers = traveler | man's little room | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | lock | past | man not said here | the spectacles | the great box | on spectacles's eyes | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient on eye=Co-Patient | ||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | man | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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