The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 75
“No, for this pole is stuck up my back.
What happens: stick up · To what, where: 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 stuck | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 pole | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 pole | det |
| 6 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | aux:pass |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 stuck | compound:prt |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up in a quote | present · passive | my back | for this pole | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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