The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 50
So the big bird flew into the air and over the water till she came to where the Scarecrow was perched upon his pole.
Who acts: big bird, bird · What happens: fly, come, perch · To what, where: air, 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 (big bird, bird), 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 | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bird | amod |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 water | cc |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 air | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 perched | mark |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 perched | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Scarecrow | det |
| 19 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 perched | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 perched | aux:pass |
| 21 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 came | advcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 pole | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pole | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 perched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the big bird | into the air and the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 2 | come | past | bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perch | past · passive | the Scarecrow | road's pole | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon 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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