The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 28
So he walked to the Throne Room and knocked at the door.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: walk, knock
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Room | det |
| 6 | Throne | Throne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Room | compound |
| 7 | Room | Room | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knocked | cc |
| 9 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knocked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Woodman | to the Throne Room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | Woodman not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
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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