The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 16

When the people heard from the Guardian of the Gates that Dorothy had melted the Wicked Witch of the West, they all gathered around the travelers and followed them in a great crowd to the Palace of Oz.

Who acts: people, Dorothy · What happens: hear, melt, gather, follow · To what, where: Guardian, Wicked Witch, travelers, people, great crowd · 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 (people, Dorothy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gathered	advcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Guardian	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Guardian	det
7	Guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Gates	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Gates	det
10	Gates	Gate	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Guardian	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 melted	mark
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 melted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 melted	aux
14	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 heard	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Witch	det
16	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Witch	amod
17	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 melted	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 West	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 West	det
20	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Witch	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gathered	nsubj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 they	det
24	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	around	around	ADP	_	27 travelers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 travelers	det
27	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gathered	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
29	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gathered	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 followed	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 crowd	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 crowd	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 crowd	amod
34	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 followed	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 Palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Palace	det
37	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 crowd	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Oz.	case
39	Oz.	Oz.	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Palace	nmod

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the people		the Guardian of the Gates	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from guardian=Source clause=Topic
2	melt	past · perfect	Dorothy	the Wicked Witch of the West		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient witch=Result
3	gather	past	people		the travelers	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	past	people not said here	people	a great crowd to the Palace of Oz.	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in crowd=Trajectory

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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