The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 10

The Scarecrow climbed up the ladder first, but he was so awkward that Dorothy had to follow close behind and keep him from falling off.

Who acts: Scarecrow, Woodman, Dorothy · What happens: climb up, be, have, follow, keep, fall off · To what, where: ladder, Woodman

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Woodman, Dorothy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:1456): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 ladder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ladder	det
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 climbed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 awkward	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 awkward	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 awkward	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 awkward	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 awkward	advmod
13	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 climbed	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 awkward	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 follow	mark
18	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	close	close	ADV	_	20 behind	advmod
20	behind	behind	ADV	_	18 follow	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 follow	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	25 falling	mark
25	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 keep	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 falling	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the Scarecrow	the ladder	first property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
2	is	past	Woodman		awkward property	tree rules
3	have	past	Dorothy			tree rules
4	follow	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		behind property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	infinitive	Dorothy not said here	Woodman		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	fall off	gerund	Dorothy not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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