The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 15

Then, before he could pull it out again—or let go—the raft was swept away, and the poor Scarecrow was left clinging to the pole in the middle of the river.

Who acts: Kansas, poor Scarecrow · What happens: pull out, let, go, sweep away, leave, cling · To what, where: City, raft, poor Scarecrow, middle

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 (Kansas, poor Scarecrow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 pull	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 pull	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pull	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pull	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 pull	compound:prt
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 pull	advmod
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pull	conj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 swept	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 raft	det
16	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swept	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 swept	aux:pass
18	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 let	parataxis
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 swept	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 left	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 left	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Scarecrow	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Scarecrow	amod
24	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 left	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 left	aux:pass
26	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 swept	conj
27	clinging	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 left	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 pole	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pole	det
30	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clinging	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clinging	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 river	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 river	det
36	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 middle	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	could	Kansas	City		then; again		tree rules
2	let	infinitive	Kansas not said here					tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Kansas not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sweep away	past · passive		the raft			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	leave	past · passive		the poor Scarecrow				tree rules
6	cling	gerund	the poor Scarecrow not said here		the middle of the river		to the pole	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to pole=Co-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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