The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 164

They agreed to say nothing of what they had learned, and went back to their rooms in high spirits.

Who acts: things · What happens: agree, say, learn, go back · To what, where: nothing · 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 (things), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agreed	nsubj
2	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agreed	xcomp
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nothing	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 learned	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 learned	aux
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 what	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 agreed	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 rooms	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 rooms	nmod:poss
17	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 went	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 spirits	case
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spirits	amod
20	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rooms	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	things = thing			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	learn	past · perfect	things = thing			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go back	past	things = thing not said here		to things's rooms in high spirits result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result

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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