The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 28
When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again.
Who acts: all, others · What happens: be, pick up, flatten out, pat · To what, where: Scarecrow, straw, shape
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 (all, others), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 down | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 down | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 down | cop |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 down | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 picked | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 picked | nsubj |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Scarecrow | det |
| 10 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 flattened | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flattened | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flattened | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flattened | aux:pass |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 flattened | advmod |
| 16 | flattened | flatten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 picked | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 flattened | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 patted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 patted | cc |
| 20 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 picked | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 straw | nmod:poss |
| 22 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 patted | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 patted | obl |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 patted | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | down, safely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | others = other | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | flatten out | past · passive | the Scarecrow | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pat | past | others = other not said here | Scarecrow's straw | shape | again | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Experiencer |
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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