The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 2
After ringing several times, it was opened by the same Guardian of the Gates they had met before.
Who acts: same Guardian, travelers · What happens: ring, open, meet · To what, where: bell, Gates
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 (same Guardian, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 ringing | mark |
| 2 | ringing | ring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 opened | advcl |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ringing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ringing | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | aux:pass |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Guardian | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Guardian | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Guardian | amod |
| 12 | Guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Gates | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gates | det |
| 15 | Gates | Gate | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Guardian | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 met | aux |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 Gates | acl:relcl |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 met | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | gerund | the same Guardian of the Gates not said here | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the same Guardian of the Gates | bell | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | travelers = traveler | the Gates not said here | before property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Co-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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