The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 21
But surely there is no use for a Scarecrow stuck on a pole in the middle of a river.
Who acts: use · What happens: be, stick · To what, where: Scarecrow, pole
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 (use), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 is | cc |
| 2 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 use | det |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Scarecrow | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Scarecrow | det |
| 9 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | nmod |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Scarecrow | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 pole | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pole | det |
| 13 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 middle | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no use for a Scarecrow | there | surely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stick | participle | a Scarecrow not said here | a pole | in the middle of a river | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on pole=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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