The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 59

There was a great cornfield beyond the fence, and not far away she saw a Scarecrow, placed high on a pole to keep the birds from the ripe corn.

Who acts: great cornfield, cornfield · What happens: be, see, place, keep · To what, where: Scarecrow, pole, birds, ripe corn

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 (great cornfield, cornfield), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cornfield	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cornfield	amod
5	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 fence	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fence	det
8	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cornfield	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	15 saw	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Scarecrow	det
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
19	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saw	conj
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 placed	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 pole	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pole	det
23	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 placed	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 birds	det
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keep	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 corn	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 corn	det
30	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 corn	amod
31	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a great cornfield beyond the fence			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	cornfield	a Scarecrow			away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scarecrow=Stimulus
3	place	participle	cornfield not said here			a pole	high property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pole=Destination
4	keep	to-infinitive	cornfield not said here		the birds	the ripe corn		vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer bird=Beneficiary from corn=Eventuality

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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