The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 6

When the Cowardly Lion stepped upon the raft it tipped badly, for he was big and heavy; but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood upon the other end to steady it, and they had long poles in their hands to push the raft through the water.

Who acts: Cowardly Lion, Lion, Toto, Scarecrow · What happens: step, tip, be, stand, have, push · To what, where: raft, other end, long poles, hands, water

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 (Cowardly Lion, Lion, Toto, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
3	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Lion	compound
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	nsubj
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	advcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 raft	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raft	det
8	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tipped	nsubj
10	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 raft	acl:relcl
11	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 tipped	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 big	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 big	case
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 big	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 big	cop
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stepped	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heavy	cc
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 big	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Scarecrow	det
22	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Woodman	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Woodman	det
25	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Woodman	compound
26	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Scarecrow	conj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 end	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 end	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 end	amod
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 steady	mark
33	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stood	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 steady	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 had	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stood	conj
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 poles	amod
40	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 hands	case
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 hands	nmod:poss
43	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 push	mark
45	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	advcl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 raft	det
47	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 push	obj
48	through	through	ADP	_	50 water	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 water	det
50	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 push	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	the Cowardly Lion		the raft			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon raft=Trajectory
2	tip	past	Lion	the raft not said here			badly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme
3	is	past	Toto				big property	tree rules
4	be		Toto not said here					tree rules
5	stand	past	the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman			upon the other end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon end=Location
6	have	past	Scarecrow	long poles	Scarecrow's hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient
7	push	to-infinitive	Scarecrow not said here	the raft	the water			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent raft=Theme through water=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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