The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 43
The farmer carried me under his arm to the cornfield, and set me up on a tall stick, where you found me.
Who acts: farmer, you · What happens: carry, set up, find · To what, where: me, arm, tall stick
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 (farmer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 arm | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cornfield | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cornfield | det |
| 10 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 carried | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 set | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 stick | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stick | det |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stick | amod |
| 19 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stick | acl:relcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the farmer | me | farmer's arm | to the cornfield | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to cornfield=Destination | ||
| 2 | set up | infinitive | the farmer not said here | me | a tall stick | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on stick=Destination | |||
| 3 | find | past | you | me | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
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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