The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 63

On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.

Who acts: feet, man, pole · What happens: be, wear, raise, mean, stick up · To what, where: old boots, blue tops, country, figure, stalks, back

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 (feet, man, pole), 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	On	on	ADP	_	7 boots	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feet	det
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boots	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boots	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 boots	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boots	amod
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 means	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tops	case
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tops	amod
10	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boots	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wore	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 man	case
13	as	as	ADP	_	12 such	fixed
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wore	nsubj
16	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tops	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wore	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 raised	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 figure	det
23	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 raised	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 raised	aux:pass
25	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 means	nsubj
26	above	above	ADP	_	28 stalks	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stalks	det
28	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 raised	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 corn	case
30	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stalks	nmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 means	case
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 pole	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pole	det
35	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	obl
36	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 pole	acl
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 stuck	compound:prt
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 back	nmod:poss
39	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stuck	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the feet		some old boots	with blue tops	tree rules
2	wear	past	every man	blue tops not said here	this country		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source
3	raise	past · passive		the figure	the stalks of corn		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above stalk=Destination
4	mean	present				of the pole	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	stick up	participle	the pole not said here	figure's back			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme

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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