The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 34
Then he put down his axe and sat beside the Scarecrow, who said, “It was a good fight, friend.”
Who acts: Scarecrow, axe · What happens: put down, sit, say, be · To what, where: axe, Scarecrow, good fight · Speech: someone speaks here
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, axe), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 axe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 Scarecrow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Scarecrow | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 fight | punct |
| 17 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fight | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fight | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fight | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fight | amod |
| 21 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 friend | punct |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fight | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | Scarecrow | Scarecrow's axe | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent axe=Goal | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Scarecrow not said here | the Scarecrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside scarecrow=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Scarecrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | axe | a good fight and friend | tree rules |
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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