The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 33
On the green lawn before it many men and women were dancing.
Who acts: many men · What happens: dance · To what, where: green lawn
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many men), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 lawn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lawn | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lawn | amod |
| 4 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dancing | obl |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lawn | nmod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dancing | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 women | cc |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 men | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dancing | aux |
| 12 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | many men and women | the green lawn before lawn | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lawn=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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