The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 37

Then they all looked at the river and saw the Scarecrow perched upon his pole in the middle of the water, looking very lonely and sad.

Who acts: trees, Scarecrow · What happens: look, see, perch · To what, where: middle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (trees, 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	4 looked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 looked	advmod
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 perched	nsubj
12	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	ccomp
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 pole	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pole	nmod:poss
15	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looking	punct
23	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 perched	advcl
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 lonely	advmod
25	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looking	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sad	cc
27	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lonely	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	trees = tree		then	at the river	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at river=Theme
2	see	past	trees = tree not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	perch	past	the Scarecrow	the middle of the water		upon country's pole	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pole=Location
4	look	gerund	the Scarecrow not said here			lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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