The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 2
When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.
Who acts: joints, Witch Glinda · What happens: be, follow, sit · To what, where: soldier girl, big room, throne
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joints, Witch Glinda), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 presentable | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 presentable | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 presentable | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 presentable | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 presentable | advmod |
| 6 | presentable | presentable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 presentable | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | compound |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 sat | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Glinda | det |
| 18 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Glinda | compound |
| 19 | Glinda | Glinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 room | advcl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rubies | case |
| 25 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 throne | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 presentable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | joints = joint | all, presentable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | joints = joint | the soldier girl | a big room | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme into room=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | sit | past | the Witch Glinda | a throne of rubies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
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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