The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 14

“We must certainly get to the Emerald City if we can,” the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long pole that it stuck fast in the mud at the bottom of the river.

Who acts: We, Scarecrow, Kansas, City · What happens: get, continue, push, stick · To what, where: mud · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Scarecrow, Kansas, City), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 continued	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 City	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 City	det
8	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 City	compound
9	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 can	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 can	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 can	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Scarecrow	det
16	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 continued	nsubj
17	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pushed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pushed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pushed	nsubj
21	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 continued	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 hard	advmod
23	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 pushed	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 pole	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pole	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pole	amod
27	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pushed	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stuck	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stuck	nsubj
30	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pushed	advcl
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 stuck	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 mud	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mud	det
34	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuck	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 bottom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bottom	det
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuck	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bottom	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	must	We		to the Emerald City result; certainly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result
2	continue	past	the Scarecrow			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	push	past	Kansas		on Kansas's long pole; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on pole=Theme
4	stick	past	City	the mud	at the bottom of the river; fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mud=Destination

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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