The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 40

So they sat down upon the bank and gazed wistfully at the Scarecrow until a Stork flew by, who, upon seeing them, stopped to rest at the water’s edge.

Who acts: trees, Stork · What happens: sit down, gaze, fly, see, stop, rest · To what, where: bank, trees, edge

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, Stork), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gazed	cc
9	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	_	9 gazed	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 Scarecrow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Scarecrow	det
13	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gazed	obl
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 flew	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Stork	det
16	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gazed	advcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 who	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 by	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 flew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seeing	punct
22	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	23 seeing	mark
23	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 flew	advcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seeing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stopped	punct
26	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rest	mark
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stopped	xcomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 edge	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 water	det
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 edge	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 water	case
33	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rest	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	trees = tree		the bank	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location
2	gaze	past	trees = tree not said here			at the Scarecrow; wistfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scarecrow=Theme
3	fly	past	a Stork				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by who=Location
4	see	gerund	a Stork not said here	trees = tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	stop	past	trees = tree not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	rest	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here		the water's edge		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at edge=Location

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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