The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 53

There were forty crows, and forty times the Scarecrow twisted a neck, until at last all were lying dead beside him.

Who acts: forty crows, all · What happens: be, twist, lie · To what, where: neck, last

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 (forty crows, all), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 crows	nummod
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 twisted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 twisted	cc
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 twisted	obl:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Scarecrow	det
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod:unmarked
11	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 neck	det
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twisted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lying	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 lying	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lying	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lying	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lying	aux
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 twisted	advcl
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lying	xcomp
22	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lying	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	forty crows		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	twist	past	forty crows not said here	a neck		time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
3	lie	past · progressive	all		last		beside Scarecrow; dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location

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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