The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 20

There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.

Who acts: little barns, many cows · What happens: be, make, stand · To what, where: all

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 (little barns, many cows), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 were	advmod
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 barns	amod
6	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fences	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 fences	case
9	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fences	compound
10	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 barns	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fences	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 standing	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 standing	cc
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cows	amod
16	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 standing	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sheep	cc
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cows	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 horses	cc
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cows	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pigs	cc
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cows	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 chickens	cc
24	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cows	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 made	nsubj:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cows	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 china	case
29	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cows	punct
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 standing	aux
32	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 were	advcl
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 groups	case
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 groups	case
35	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 standing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	little barns and china fences around fences		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle · passive		all		of china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	stand	past · progressive	many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens			about groups	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about group=Location

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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