The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 23
Down the stream the raft floated, and the poor Scarecrow was left far behind.
Who acts: raft · What happens: float, leave · To what, where: stream, poor Scarecrow
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 (raft), 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 | Down | down | ADP | _ | 3 stream | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stream | det |
| 3 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floated | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 raft | det |
| 5 | raft | raft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floated | nsubj |
| 6 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Scarecrow | amod |
| 11 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux:pass |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 floated | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 behind | advmod |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 13 left | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past | the raft | the stream | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the poor Scarecrow | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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