The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 21

When these people drew near the house where Dorothy was standing in the doorway, they paused and whispered among themselves, as if afraid to come farther.

Who acts: people, Dorothy · What happens: draw, stand, pause, whisper, come · To what, where: house, doorway

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Dorothy), 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	4 drew	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paused	advcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 standing	advmod
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 standing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 standing	aux
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 house	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 doorway	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doorway	det
14	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 paused	nsubj
17	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 whispered	cc
19	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paused	conj
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 themselves	case
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 whispered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 afraid	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 afraid	mark
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 whispered	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 come	mark
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 afraid	xcomp
28	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 come	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	this people	the house		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past · progressive	Dorothy	the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
3	pause	past	people			vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	whisper speech: assert	past	people not said here		among people	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among themselves=Location
5	come	to-infinitive	people not said here		far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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