The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 26
They found the ladder so heavy they could not pull it up, so the Scarecrow fell off the wall and the others jumped down upon him so that the hard floor would not hurt their feet.
Who acts: princes, Scarecrow, others, hard floor · What happens: find, not pull up, fall off, jump down, not hurt · To what, where: ladder, wall, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princes, Scarecrow, others, hard floor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladder | det |
| 4 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 heavy | advmod |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pull | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pull | advmod |
| 10 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pull | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pull | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Scarecrow | det |
| 16 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jumped | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 jumped | nsubj |
| 24 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fell | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 jumped | advmod |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 jumped | obl |
| 28 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 hurt | mark |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 so | fixed |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 floor | det |
| 31 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 floor | amod |
| 32 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hurt | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 hurt | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 hurt | advmod |
| 35 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 jumped | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 feet | nmod:poss |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hurt | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | princes = prince | the ladder | heavy property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ladder=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | not pull up | could | princes = prince | ladder | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall off | past | the Scarecrow | the wall | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient wall=Extent | ||||
| 4 | jump down | past | the others | upon Scarecrow; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not hurt | would | the hard floor | others's feet | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Patient |
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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