The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 52

So they sat down to consider what they should do, and after serious thought the Scarecrow said:

Who acts: tastes, Scarecrow · What happens: sit down, consider, do, think, say · 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 (tastes, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 consider	mark
6	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consider	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thought	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 serious	case
14	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thought	obl
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Scarecrow	det
17	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	ccomp
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	tastes = taste		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	consider	to-infinitive	tastes = taste not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do	should	tastes = taste			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	tastes = taste not said here	after serious		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the Scarecrow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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