The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 29

It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman’s long pole and helped push the raft to the land.

Who acts: shore, use, Dorothy · What happens: be, draw out, take, help, push · To what, where: hard work, Scarecrow, current, long pole, raft, land

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 (shore, use, Dorothy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	amod
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 big	punct
6	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 big	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 big	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 big	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	parataxis
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 drawn	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 drawn	cc
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 drawn	mark
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drawn	cc
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 drawn	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drawn	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drawn	aux:pass
18	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 big	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 current	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 current	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 current	det
22	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drawn	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 took	advmod
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drawn	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Woodman	det
29	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Woodman	compound
30	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 pole	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Woodman	case
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pole	amod
33	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 helped	cc
35	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 took	conj
36	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 helped	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 raft	det
38	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 push	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 land	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 land	det
41	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 push	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	shore	hard work				tree rules
2	is	past	use				big property	tree rules
3	draw out	past · passive		Scarecrow	the current			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary current=Result
4	take	past	Dorothy	the Tin Woodman's long pole		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme
5	help	past	Dorothy not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	push	infinitive	Dorothy not said here	the raft	the land			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent raft=Theme to land=Trajectory

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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