The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 71

After this they sat down beside the Lion until he should awaken; and the Scarecrow brought Dorothy some fruit from a tree near by, which she ate for her dinner.

Who acts: fields, Lion, Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: sit down, awaken, bring, eat · To what, where: fruit, Dorothy, tree

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 (fields, Lion, Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sat	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 Lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 awaken	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 awaken	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 awaken	aux
12	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sat	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 brought	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 brought	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Scarecrow	det
16	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 brought	nsubj
17	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 fruit	det
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obl
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 by	case
25	by	by	ADP	_	17 brought	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 ate	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ate	nsubj
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 brought	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 dinner	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dinner	nmod:poss
32	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ate	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	fields = field				after this	beside the Lion	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside lion=Location
2	awaken	should	Lion						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	past	the Scarecrow	some fruit	Dorothy	a tree			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Destination fruit=Theme
4	eat	past	Dorothy					for Dorothy's dinner	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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