The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 52
When the Scarecrow found himself among his friends again, he was so happy that he hugged them all, even the Lion and Toto; and as they walked along he sang “Tol-de-ri-de-oh!” at every step, he felt so gay.
Who acts: Scarecrow, road · What happens: find, be, hug, walk, sing, feel · To what, where: road, Scarecrow, Tol de
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 (Scarecrow, road), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 found | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 friends | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happy | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 happy | advmod |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hugged | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hugged | nsubj |
| 17 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happy | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hugged | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lion | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 Lion | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lion | det |
| 23 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hugged | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Toto | cc |
| 25 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lion | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 walked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 walked | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 walked | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 walked | nsubj |
| 30 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 31 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 sang | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sang | nsubj |
| 33 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 walked | advcl |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 de | punct |
| 35 | Tol | Tol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 de | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Tol | punct |
| 37 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sang | obj |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 ri | punct |
| 39 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 de | appos |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 de | punct |
| 41 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ri | conj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 oh | punct |
| 43 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 39 ri | discourse |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 oh | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 de | punct |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 step | case |
| 47 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 step | det |
| 48 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sang | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 felt | punct |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 felt | nsubj |
| 51 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 walked | conj |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 53 gay | advmod |
| 53 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 felt | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Scarecrow | road | among road's friends | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | road | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hug | past | road | Scarecrow | the Lion and Toto obl | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | walk | past | Scarecrow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | road | Tol de | at every step | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location de=Theme | |||
| 6 | feel | past | road | gay 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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