The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 13
So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the wall, and Dorothy put her head over and cried, “Oh, my!” just as the Scarecrow had done.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: climb, sit down, put over, cry, do · To what, where: top, head, my
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, Dorothy), 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 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scarecrow | det |
| 3 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sat | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 put | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cried | cc |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 done | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 done | punct |
| 27 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 29 my | discourse |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Oh | punct |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 done | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 my | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 my | punct |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 done | advmod |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 done | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Scarecrow | det |
| 35 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 done | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 done | aux |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 cried | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the Scarecrow | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the Scarecrow not said here | the top of the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | ||||
| 3 | put over | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's head | over property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the Scarecrow not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | the Scarecrow | my | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=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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