The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 44

So the soldier was summoned and entered the Throne Room timidly, for while Oz was alive he never was allowed to come farther than the door.

Who acts: Oz, band · What happens: summon, enter, be, not allow, come · To what, where: soldier, Throne Room, band

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz, band), 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	_	5 summoned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 summoned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 summoned	aux:pass
5	summoned	summon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 entered	cc
7	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 summoned	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Room	det
9	Throne	Throne	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Room	compound
10	Room	Room	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 entered	obj
11	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	7 entered	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 allowed	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 alive	mark
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 alive	mark
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 alive	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 alive	cop
17	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 allowed	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 allowed	nsubj:pass
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 allowed	advmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 allowed	aux:pass
21	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 entered	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 allowed	xcomp
24	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 come	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 farther	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	summon	past · passive		the soldier			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	enter	past			the Throne Room	timidly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	is	past	Oz			alive property	tree rules
4	not allow	past · passive		band			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	band not said here			far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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