The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 11

She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts.

Who acts: Dorothy, this, poor creature · What happens: think, be, laugh, pick up · To what, where: awkward way, nuts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, this, poor creature), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thoughtful	cc
8	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Scarecrow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Scarecrow	det
11	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thoughtful	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
16	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	15 laughed	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 way	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
19	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughed	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 creature	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 creature	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 creature	amod
25	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	nmod
26	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 creature	acl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 picked	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nuts	det
29	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picked	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Dorothy				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this			kind property	tree rules
3	be		this not said here			of the Scarecrow	tree rules
4	laugh	past	Dorothy		the awkward way the poor creature	heartily property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pick up	participle	the poor creature not said here	the nuts			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Topic

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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