The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 38

Of course this politeness was wasted on the Scarecrow; for when he found himself alone in his room he stood stupidly in one spot, just within the doorway, to wait till morning.

Who acts: dog · What happens: waste, find, stand, wait · To what, where: Scarecrow, dog, room, one spot · 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 (dog), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 politeness	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 politeness	det
4	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasted	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wasted	aux:pass
6	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Scarecrow	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Scarecrow	det
9	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wasted	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 found	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wasted	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 found	obj
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 found	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 room	nmod:poss
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	ccomp
22	stupidly	stupidly	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 spot	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 spot	nummod
25	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 doorway	punct
27	just	just	ADV	_	30 doorway	advmod
28	within	within	ADP	_	30 doorway	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 doorway	det
30	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wait	punct
32	to	to	PART	_	33 wait	mark
33	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	conj
34	till	till	ADP	_	35 morning	case
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wait	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	past · passive					on the Scarecrow goal; of this politeness	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: on scarecrow=Goal
2	find	past	dog	dog	dog's room		alone property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	stand	past	dog		one spot		within the doorway; stupidly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location
4	wait	to-infinitive	dog not said here			morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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