The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 110
When the Scarecrow had bowed, as prettily as his straw stuffing would let him, before this beautiful creature, she looked upon him sweetly, and said:
Who acts: straw stuffing, Oz · What happens: bow, let, look, say · To what, where: Scarecrow, breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw stuffing, Oz), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 bowed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowed | aux |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 looked | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prettily | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 prettily | advmod |
| 8 | prettily | prettily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowed | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stuffing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stuffing | compound |
| 12 | stuffing | stuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prettily | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 creature | punct |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 creature | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 creature | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | parataxis |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | obl |
| 26 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 23 looked | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past · perfect · passive | the Scarecrow | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | would | breath's straw stuffing | breath | before this beautiful creature | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | Oz | upon breath; sweetly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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