The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 27

There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.

Who acts: neat fences · What happens: be, paint · To what, where: dainty blue color, fields

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 (neat fences), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fences	amod
4	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 sides	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sides	det
7	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fences	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sides	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 painted	punct
12	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 color	det
14	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 color	amod
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 color	amod
16	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 painted	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fields	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fields	cc
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fields	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fields	cop
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 grain	case
24	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fields	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 vegetables	cc
26	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grain	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 abundance	case
28	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 vegetables	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	neat fences at the sides of the road		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	paint	past	neat fences at the sides of the road not said here	a dainty blue color			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent color=Destination
3	is a	past		fields		beyond fences = fence; of grain and vegetables in abundance	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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