The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 27

There was another Munchkin with him, and the first thing I heard was the farmer saying, ‘How do you like those ears?’

Who acts: I, first thing, you · What happens: hear, be, like · To what, where: first thing, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first thing, you), 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saying	cop
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 Munchkin	det
4	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saying	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saying	nsubj:outer
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	acl:relcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saying	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmer	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saying	nsubj
17	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
20	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 like	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saying	ccomp
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 ears	det
25	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 like	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	the first thing not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	be speech: assert	past	the first thing		say property	tree rules
3	like	present · do-support	you	that ears		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ear=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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