The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 1

The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.

Who acts: four travelers, travelers · What happens: pass, come out, see, cover · To what, where: rest, steep hill, gloom, top

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four travelers, travelers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 travelers	det
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 travelers	nummod
3	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 rest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rest	det
7	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rest	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 safety	case
12	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forest	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 saw	advcl
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 gloom	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 gloom	nmod:poss
21	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obl
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hill	det
26	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hill	amod
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 covered	punct
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hill	acl
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 top	case
31	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 bottom	case
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 pieces	case
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pieces	amod
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bottom	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 rock	case
38	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pieces	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	the four travelers		the rest of the forest in safety			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through rest=Location
2	come out	past	travelers = traveler				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	see	past	the four travelers not said here	a steep hill	safety's gloom	before travelers = traveler		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus
4	cover	participle		a steep hill not said here	top		to bottom with great pieces of rock	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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