The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 31

As they drew near, the cow suddenly gave a kick and kicked over the stool, the pail, and even the milkmaid herself, and all fell on the china ground with a great clatter.

Who acts: others, cow · What happens: draw, give, kick, fall · To what, where: milkmaid, kick, stool, china ground

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 (others, cow), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 gave	advmod
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kick	det
11	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kicked	cc
13	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 stool	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stool	det
16	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kicked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pail	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pail	det
19	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stool	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 milkmaid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 milkmaid	cc
22	even	even	ADV	_	24 milkmaid	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 milkmaid	det
24	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 milkmaid	nmod:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 fell	advmod
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
32	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ground	compound
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 clatter	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 clatter	det
36	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 clatter	amod
37	clatter	clatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	others = other	the milkmaid thing		near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the cow	a kick		suddenly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme
3	kick	past	the cow not said here		the stool and the pail		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	fall	past	others = other not said here		the china ground	with a great clatter	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=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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