The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 29

They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

Who acts: travelers, stillness, Oz · What happens: keep, be, see, take · To what, where: one, Oz

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 (travelers, stillness, Oz), 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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 close	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 closer	cc
8	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 kept	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kept	obl
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stillness	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 stillness	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stillness	det
15	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dreadful	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 room	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
18	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 room	amod
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stillness	nmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dreadful	cop
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 dreadful	advmod
22	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	parataxis
23	than	than	ADP	_	24 any	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 dreadful	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 forms	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forms	det
27	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 any	nmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 forms	acl:relcl
31	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 seen	obj
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 seen	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	travelers = traveler		one	close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the stillness of the empty room			than any; dreadful property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	travelers = traveler	Oz			tree rules
4	take	infinitive	Oz not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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