The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 104

He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest of rats in the straw, and he often growled in an unfriendly way at the Scarecrow.

Who acts: Toto · What happens: smell, stuff, suspect, be, growl · To what, where: nest, unfriendly way

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 suspected	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 suspected	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suspected	nsubj
10	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smelled	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 suspected	advmod
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 nest	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 nest	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nest	det
15	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suspected	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 rats	case
17	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nest	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 straw	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 straw	det
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rats	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 growled	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 growled	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 growled	nsubj
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 growled	advmod
25	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 smelled	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 growled	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 Scarecrow	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Scarecrow	det
32	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 growled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell	past	Toto			around the stuffed man	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	stuff	participle					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	suspect	past	Toto		there		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	might	Toto not said here	a nest		of rats in the straw	tree rules
5	growl	past	Toto		a unfriendly way	at the Scarecrow; often property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at scarecrow=Stimulus

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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