The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 59
Even the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could sit on it, and were drawn swiftly by their queer little horses to the place where the Lion lay asleep.
Who acts: Scarecrow, queer little horses, Lion · What happens: sit, draw, lie · To what, where: tin, place
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, queer little horses, Lion), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 Scarecrow | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Tin | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tin | det |
| 6 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Scarecrow | conj |
| 7 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tin | flat |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sit | aux |
| 9 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drawn | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drawn | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drawn | aux:pass |
| 15 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sit | advcl |
| 16 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 drawn | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horses | nmod:poss |
| 19 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horses | amod |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drawn | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drawn | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lay | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Lion | det |
| 27 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lay | nsubj |
| 28 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lay | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | could | the Scarecrow and the Tin | tin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | thousands's queer little horses | the place | swiftly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | past | the Lion | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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