The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 86
So they picked up Toto and put the dog in Dorothy’s lap, and then they made a chair with their hands for the seat and their arms for the arms and carried the sleeping girl between them through the flowers.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: pick up, put, make, carry · To what, where: Toto, dog, lap, chair, sleeping girl, flowers
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), 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 picked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 picked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lap | case |
| 11 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Dorothy | case |
| 13 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 made | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 chair | det |
| 20 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 seat | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 seat | det |
| 26 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 arms | cc |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 seat | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 arms | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 arms | det |
| 32 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 arms | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 carried | cc |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 girl | det |
| 36 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 girl | compound |
| 37 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carried | obj |
| 38 | between | between | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 carried | obl |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 flowers | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 flowers | det |
| 42 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 carried | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Scarecrow | Toto | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | the dog | Dorothy's lap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme in lap=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | Scarecrow | a chair | then | with Scarecrow's hands; for the seat and Scarecrow's arms for the arms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chair=Material for seat=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | carry | past | Scarecrow not said here | the sleeping girl | the flowers | between Scarecrow | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/86/