The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 46

So they all lay upon the ground except the Scarecrow, and he stood up and stretched out his arms.

Who acts: crows, Scarecrow · What happens: lay, stand up, stretch out · To what, where: ground, arms

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 (crows, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 Scarecrow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Scarecrow	det
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 stood	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stretched	cc
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stood	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 stretched	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stretched	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	crows = crow		the ground	except the Scarecrow	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination
2	stand up	past	Scarecrow				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch out	participle	Scarecrow not said here	Scarecrow's arms			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

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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