The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 3
As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Dorothy · What happens: have, walk, step, fall · To what, where: brains, holes, full length
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 (Scarecrow, Dorothy), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Scarecrow | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scarecrow | det |
| 4 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 having | punct |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Scarecrow | acl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 brains | det |
| 8 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 having | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Scarecrow | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 ahead | advmod |
| 13 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stepped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stepped | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 stepped | advmod |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 walked | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 holes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 holes | det |
| 20 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stepped | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stepped | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 length | amod |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bricks | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bricks | det |
| 28 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bricks | amod |
| 29 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fell | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Scarecrow not said here | no brains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | Dorothy | as the Scarecrow; ahead property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step | participle | Dorothy not said here | the holes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Dorothy not said here | full length | on the hard bricks | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
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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