The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 49

Then, to their surprise, they found before them a high wall which seemed to be made of white china.

Who acts: travelers, high wall · What happens: find, seem, make, surprise · To what, where: high wall

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers, high wall), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 found	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 surprise	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 surprise	nmod:poss
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wall	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wall	amod
13	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seemed	nsubj
15	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wall	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	18 made	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seemed	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 china	case
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 china	amod
21	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	travelers = traveler	a high wall	before branches = branch; then	to travelers's surprise	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Topic
2	seem	past	a high wall				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	make	to-infinitive · passive	a high wall not said here			of white china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	surprise		travelers = traveler				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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