The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 13

They thanked him and bade him good-bye, and turned toward the West, walking over fields of soft grass dotted here and there with daisies and buttercups.

Who acts: slaves · What happens: thank, bade, turn, walk, dot · To what, where: Scarecrow, West, fields, soft grass

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bade	cc
5	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bade	obj
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bade	xcomp
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 good	punct
9	bye	bye	INTJ	_	7 good	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thanked	conj
13	toward	toward	ADP	_	15 West	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 West	det
15	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 walking	punct
17	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 turned	advcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	19 fields	case
19	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walking	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grass	amod
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fields	nmod
23	dotted	dot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 grass	acl
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 dotted	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 there	cc
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 here	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 daisies	case
28	daisies	daisy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dotted	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 buttercups	cc
30	buttercups	buttercup	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 daisies	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	slaves = slave		Scarecrow			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	bade	past	slaves = slave not said here	Scarecrow			good property	tree rules
3	turn	past	slaves = slave not said here			the West		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward west=Trajectory
4	walk	gerund	slaves = slave not said here			fields of soft grass		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Trajectory
5	dot	participle		soft grass not said here		here	with daisies and buttercups	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with daisy=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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