The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 18

In the afternoon the sun shone hot in their faces, for there were no trees to offer them shade; so that before night Dorothy and Toto and the Lion were tired, and lay down upon the grass and fell asleep, with the Woodman and the Scarecrow keeping watch.

Who acts: sun, trees, Scarecrow · What happens: shine, be, offer, lay down, fall, keep · To what, where: faces, buttercups, grass, watch

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 (sun, trees, Scarecrow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 afternoon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 afternoon	det
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shone	nsubj
6	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shone	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 faces	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 faces	nmod:poss
10	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 were	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shone	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 were	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 offer	mark
18	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 were	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 offer	obj
20	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offer	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tired	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 Dorothy	case
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	before	before	ADP	_	25 night	case
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Dorothy	obl
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 tired	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Toto	cc
28	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Dorothy	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Lion	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lion	det
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Dorothy	conj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tired	cop
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shone	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 lay	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lay	cc
36	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tired	conj
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 lay	advmod
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 grass	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 grass	det
40	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lay	conj
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Woodman	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 Woodman	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Woodman	det
47	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 lay	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Scarecrow	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Scarecrow	det
50	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Woodman	conj
51	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 Scarecrow	acl
52	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 keeping	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun		buttercups's faces	afternoon	hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location
2	be	past	no trees		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	offer	to-infinitive	no trees not said here	buttercups = buttercup				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal shade=Theme
4	is	past					so Dorothy and Toto and the Lion; tired property	tree rules
5	lay down	infinitive			the grass		with the Woodman and the Scarecrow; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon grass=Destination
6	fall	past					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	gerund	the Scarecrow not said here	watch				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=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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