The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 3
There was the Scarecrow, still standing patiently in his corner, waiting for her.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: be, stand, wait · To what, where: corner
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Scarecrow | det |
| 4 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Scarecrow | appos |
| 8 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 7 standing | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corner | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 corner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 standing | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 waiting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Scarecrow | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | sun's corner | still | patiently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | for Toto | 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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