The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 40

Before the gates were three young girls, dressed in handsome red uniforms trimmed with gold braid; and as Dorothy approached, one of them said to her:

Who acts: Dorothy, one · What happens: be, dress, trim, approach, say · To what, where: three young girls, handsome red uniforms, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dorothy, one), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 gates	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gates	det
3	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 girls	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girls	cop
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 girls	nummod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girls	amod
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dressed	punct
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 girls	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 uniforms	case
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 uniforms	amod
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 uniforms	amod
13	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dressed	obl
14	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 uniforms	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 braid	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 braid	compound
17	braid	braid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trimmed	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 approached	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 approached	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 approached	mark
21	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 approached	nsubj
22	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girls	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 said	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 one	nmod
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 approached	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 girls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		three young girls			before the gates		tree rules
2	dress	participle		three young girls not said here		handsome red uniforms			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	trim	participle		handsome red uniforms not said here				with gold braid	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with braid=Theme
4	approach	past	Dorothy						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	one of roads		girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

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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