The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 49

Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person.

Who acts: Many crows, crows, I, me · What happens: fly, see, fly away, think, be, make · To what, where: cornfield, me, Munchkin, important person

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 (Many crows, crows, I, me), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crows	amod
2	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 birds	cc
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crows	conj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 cornfield	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cornfield	det
9	cornfield	cornfield	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 saw	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thinking	punct
23	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 flew	conj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 Munchkin	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Munchkin	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 Munchkin	det
27	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 thinking	parataxis
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 pleased	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pleased	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 pleased	nsubj
31	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flew	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 pleased	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 person	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 person	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 person	cop
40	quite	quite	ADV	_	43 person	advmod
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 person	det
42	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 person	amod
43	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 feel	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Many crows and other birds			into the cornfield result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cornfield=Result
2	see	past	crows = crow	me		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	fly away	past	crows = crow		again	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	crows = crow not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	I	a Munchkin			tree rules
6	make	past	Many crows and other birds not said here	me			tree rules
7	feel	infinitive	me not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	is a	past	I	a important person			tree rules

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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