The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 85

“Let us make a chair with our hands and carry her,” said the Scarecrow.

Who acts: us, Scarecrow · What happens: let, make, carry, say · To what, where: us, chair, girl · 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 (us, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carry	cc
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Scarecrow	det
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	make in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	a chair	with our hands	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chair=Product
3	carry in a quote	infinitive		girl		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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