The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 15

The Lion climbed the ladder next, and the Tin Woodman came last; but both of them cried, “Oh, my!” as soon as they looked over the wall.

Who acts: Lion, Tin Woodman, both, brains · What happens: climb, come, cry, look · To what, where: ladder

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 (Lion, Tin Woodman, both, brains), 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 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladder	det
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obj
6	next	next	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woodman	det
10	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Woodman	compound
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 cried	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 both	nmod
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 soon	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Oh	vocative
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 soon	advmod
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 looked	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 looked	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cried	parataxis
32	over	over	ADP	_	34 wall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wall	det
34	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past	the Lion	the ladder	next property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
2	come	past	the Tin Woodman		last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	both			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	brains = brain		over the wall; soon property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over wall=Theme

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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