The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 14

With one blow of his paw he sent the Scarecrow spinning over and over to the edge of the road, and then he struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws.

Who acts: Toto, Scarecrow, paw · What happens: send, spin, strike, blow · To what, where: Scarecrow, edge

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toto, Scarecrow, paw), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 blow	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 blow	nummod
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 paw	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paw	nmod:poss
6	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blow	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sent	nsubj
8	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Scarecrow	det
10	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sent	obj
11	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 Scarecrow	acl
12	over	over	ADV	_	11 spinning	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 over	cc
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 over	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 edge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 edge	det
17	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spinning	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 edge	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 struck	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 struck	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 struck	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 struck	nsubj
25	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 Woodman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Woodman	det
28	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Woodman	compound
29	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 struck	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 claws	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 claws	nmod:poss
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 claws	amod
33	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 struck	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Toto	the Scarecrow			with one blow of Toto's paw	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme
2	spin	gerund	the Scarecrow not said here		the edge of the road		over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to edge=Trajectory
3	strike	past	Toto			then	with Toto's sharp claws; at the Tin Woodman	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at woodman=Patient with claw=Instrument
4	blow		Toto's paw					nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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