The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 69
The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep.
Who acts: Scarecrow, doors · What happens: stand up, keep, not sleep · To what, where: corner
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, doors), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Woodman | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Woodman | det |
| 5 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Woodman | compound |
| 6 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Scarecrow | conj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stood | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corner | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 corner | det |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 kept | cc |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 14 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kept | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sleep | punct |
| 18 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 24 sleep | mark |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 24 sleep | advmod |
| 20 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 of | fixed |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sleep | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 sleep | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 sleep | advmod |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kept | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman not said here | night | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not sleep | could | doors = door | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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