The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 54

The other birds, seeing he was not harmed by me, came to eat the corn too, so in a short time there was a great flock of them about me.

Who acts: other birds, me, great flock · What happens: see, not harm, come, eat, be · To what, where: farmer, corn · 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 (other birds, me, great flock), 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	3 birds	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seeing	punct
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 birds	acl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 harmed	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 harmed	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 harmed	advmod
9	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seeing	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 harmed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 birds	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 eat	mark
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corn	det
17	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obj
18	too	too	ADV	_	15 eat	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	obl
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flock	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flock	amod
29	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 was	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flock	nmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 flock	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	gerund	the other birds not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not harm	past · passive	me	farmer			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
3	come	past	the other birds				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	the other birds not said here	the corn			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
5	be	past	a great flock of birds about me		there	time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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