The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 82
The Scarecrow, who was never tired, stood up in another corner and waited patiently until morning came.
Who acts: Scarecrow, morning · What happens: not be, stand up, wait, come · To what, where: corner
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, morning), 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 Scarecrow | det |
| 2 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tired | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tired | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tired | cop |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 tired | advmod |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Scarecrow | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scarecrow | punct |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stood | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 waited | cc |
| 15 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 16 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 15 waited | advmod |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 waited | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Scarecrow | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | the Scarecrow | another corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the Scarecrow not said here | patiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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