The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 58
But the Woodman had seen them coming, and the Scarecrow had decided what to do.
Who acts: Woodman, bees, Scarecrow · What happens: see, come, decide, do · To what, where: bees · 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 (Woodman, bees, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 seen | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 seen | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 decided | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Scarecrow | det |
| 11 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 decided | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 decided | aux |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | the Woodman | bees = bee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | bees = bee not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | decide | past · perfect | the Scarecrow | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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