The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 133

After he had eaten he would lie down on his bed of straw, and Dorothy would lie beside him and put her head on his soft, shaggy mane, while they talked of their troubles and tried to plan some way to escape.

Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy, Shoes · What happens: eat, lie down, lie, put, talk, try · To what, where: bed, head, soft shaggy mane, way

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 (Scarecrow, Dorothy, Shoes), 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	SCONJ	_	4 eaten	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lie	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lie	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	aux
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lie	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 straw	case
13	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bed	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lie	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lie	cc
16	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 lie	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	aux
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lie	parataxis
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lie	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 put	cc
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	30 mane	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mane	nmod:poss
27	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mane	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 soft	punct
29	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mane	amod
30	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 talked	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 talked	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 talked	nsubj
34	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 troubles	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 troubles	nmod:poss
37	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 talked	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tried	cc
39	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 talked	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 plan	mark
41	plan	plan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tried	xcomp
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 plan	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 escape	mark
45	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 way	acl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	Scarecrow				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie down	would	Scarecrow		Scarecrow's bed of straw	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
3	lie	would	Dorothy			beside Scarecrow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
4	put	past	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy's head	Scarecrow's soft shaggy mane		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on mane=Destination
5	talk	past	Shoes = shoe			of Shoes's troubles	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	try	past	Shoes = shoe not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	plan not said to happen	to-infinitive	Shoes = shoe not said here	some way			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
8	escape	to-infinitive	Shoes = shoe not said here	some way not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	trouble		Shoes = shoe				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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