The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 10
The Scarecrow went in and found the little man sitting down by the window, engaged in deep thought.
Who acts: Scarecrow, little man · What happens: go in, find, sit down, engage · To what, where: little man, deep thought
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, little man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sitting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 engaged | punct |
| 16 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 thought | case |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thought | amod |
| 19 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 engaged | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | the Scarecrow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the Scarecrow not said here | the little man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | the little man not said here | by the window; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 4 | engage | participle | the little man not said here | in deep thought goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in thought=Goal |
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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