The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 34
The Scarecrow sat upon the Lion’s back, and the big beast walked to the edge of the gulf and crouched down.
Who acts: Scarecrow, big beast · What happens: sit, walk, crouch down
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 (Scarecrow, big beast), 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 | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 ’s | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Lion | det |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ’s | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | advcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 ’s | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beast | amod |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | nsubj |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | 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 | 14 walked | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gulf | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gulf | det |
| 20 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 edge | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crouched | cc |
| 22 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 walked | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 crouched | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Scarecrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | the big beast | to the edge of the gulf result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to edge=Result | ||||
| 3 | crouch down | participle | the big beast not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «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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