The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 30

They began walking through the country of the china people, and the first thing they came to was a china milkmaid milking a china cow.

Who acts: others, first thing, china milkmaid · What happens: begin, walk, come, be, milk · To what, where: country, china milkmaid, china cow

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, first thing, china milkmaid), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walking	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	compound
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	22 milkmaid	mark
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 milkmaid	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 milkmaid	det
21	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 milkmaid	compound
22	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
23	milking	milk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 milkmaid	acl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
25	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cow	compound
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milking	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	others = other			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	walk	gerund	others = other not said here		the country of the china people	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory
3	come	past	the first thing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a china milkmaid		tree rules
5	milk	gerund	a china milkmaid not said here	a china cow		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source

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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