The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 27
Promptly at nine o’clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.
Who acts: whiskered soldier, travelers · What happens: whisker, come, go · To what, where: travelers, 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 (whiskered soldier, 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 | Promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 o’clock | case |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 o’clock | nummod |
| 4 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Promptly | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 whiskered | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 green | punct |
| 11 | whiskered | whisker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 soldier | amod |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 18 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 later | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 went | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 they | det |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 Room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Room | det |
| 26 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Room | compound |
| 27 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Oz. | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Oz. | det |
| 30 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Oz. | amod |
| 31 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Room | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisker | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the whiskered soldier | travelers = traveler | morning | promptly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | go | past | travelers = traveler | the Throne Room of the Great Oz. | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into 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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