The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 51

Then the Stork with her great claws grabbed the Scarecrow by the arm and carried him up into the air and back to the bank, where Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto were sitting.

Who acts: Stork, Dorothy · What happens: grab, carry up, sit · To what, where: Scarecrow, road, air

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stork, Dorothy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 grabbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Stork	det
3	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbed	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 claws	nmod:poss
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claws	amod
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Stork	nmod
8	grabbed	grab	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 grabbed	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 arm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 arm	det
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grabbed	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 carried	compound:prt
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bank	cc
22	back	back	ADV	_	25 bank	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 bank	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bank	det
25	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 air	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sitting	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 sitting	advmod
28	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 sitting	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Lion	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lion	det
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Dorothy	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Woodman	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Woodman	det
34	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Woodman	compound
35	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Dorothy	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Toto	cc
37	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Dorothy	conj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sitting	aux
39	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 bank	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grabbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the Stork with Stork's great claws	the Scarecrow		then	by the arm	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme
2	carry up	past	the Stork with Stork's great claws not said here	road	the air and the bank			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	Dorothy and the Lion and the Tin Woodman and Toto					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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