The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 27

“Is he stuffed?” asked the Lion in surprise, as he watched her pick up the Scarecrow and set him upon his feet, while she patted him into shape again.

Who acts: Lion, man, girl · What happens: stuff, ask, watch, pick up, set, pat · To what, where: man, surprise, girl, Scarecrow, feet, shape · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lion, man, girl), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 stuffed	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stuffed	aux:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuffed	nsubj
4	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 asked	parataxis
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stuffed	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 stuffed	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Lion	det
9	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 surprise	case
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watched	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 watched	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	nsubj
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 watched	obj
17	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 watched	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 pick	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Scarecrow	det
20	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pick	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
22	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pick	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 set	obj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 feet	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 set	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 patted	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 patted	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 patted	nsubj
30	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 patted	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 shape	case
33	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 patted	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	30 patted	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stuff in a quote	present · passive		man			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Lion		surprise		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	watch	past	man	girl			tree rules
4	pick up	infinitive	girl not said here	the Scarecrow			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Topic
5	set	infinitive	girl not said here	man	man's feet		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon foot=Destination
6	pat	past	girl	man	shape	again	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

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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