The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 9

The Scarecrow waked Dorothy and the Lion and Toto, and told them that the ladder was ready.

Who acts: Scarecrow, ladder · What happens: wake, tell, be · To what, where: Dorothy, brains · 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 (Scarecrow, ladder), 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 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waked	nsubj
3	waked	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 waked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Lion	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lion	det
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dorothy	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Toto	cc
9	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Dorothy	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waked	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 ready	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ladder	det
16	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ready	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 told	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wake	past	the Scarecrow	Dorothy and the Lion and Toto			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow not said here		brains = brain		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is	past	the ladder			ready property	tree rules

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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