The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 23

When the Wizard was given this message he was so frightened that he sent word for them to come to the Throne Room at four minutes after nine o’clock the next morning.

Who acts: Wizard · What happens: give, be, send, come · To what, where: Wizard, word, Throne Room

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 (Wizard), 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	SCONJ	_	5 given	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wizard	det
3	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 message	det
7	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
11	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 given	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 sent	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sent	nsubj
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	ccomp
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 word	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sent	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 Room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Room	det
22	Throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Room	compound
23	Room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 minutes	case
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 minutes	nummod
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	obl
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 o’clock	case
28	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 o’clock	nummod
29	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 morning	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 morning	amod
32	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 o’clock	nmod:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the Wizard				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient message=Theme
2	is	past · passive		Wizard			frightened property	tree rules
3	send	past	Wizard	word			for travelers = traveler	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive	Wizard not said here		the Throne Room	after nine o’clock the next morning; minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location

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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