The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 50

By and by an old crow flew near me, and after looking at me carefully he perched upon my shoulder and said:

Who acts: old crow, person · What happens: fly, look, perch, say · To what, where: shoulder · 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 (old crow, person), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	7 flew	mark
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 crow	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crow	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crow	amod
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	advcl
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 perched	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 looking	mark
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 perched	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 looking	obl
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	13 looking	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 perched	nsubj
18	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 shoulder	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoulder	nmod:poss
21	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 perched	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a old crow		near me	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent near i=Location
2	look	gerund	person not said here		at me; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
3	perch	past	person	my shoulder		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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