The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 20
“Then, I was stuck on a pole in a cornfield, where I could make-believe scare the crows, at any rate.
Who acts: Kansas · What happens: stick, make, believe · To what, where: Kansas, pole, scare, rate
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), 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 | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stuck | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | aux:pass |
| 6 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 pole | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pole | det |
| 9 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cornfield | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cornfield | det |
| 12 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 make | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cornfield | conj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 believe | punct |
| 19 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | scare | scare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 believe | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crows | det |
| 22 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 believe | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rate | punct |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 rate | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 rate | det |
| 26 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 believe | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick in a quote | past · passive | Kansas | a pole | then | in a cornfield | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on pole=Destination | ||
| 2 | make in a quote | could | Kansas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | infinitive | Kansas not said here | scare | any rate | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent scare=Theme crow=Eventuality |
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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