The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 24

But the Tin Woodman caught the dog in his arms and held him tight, while he called to the mice, “Come back!

Who acts: Tin Woodman, Toto · What happens: catch, hold, call, come back · To what, where: dog, arms, Toto, mice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, Toto), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 caught	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woodman	det
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Woodman	compound
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 arms	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caught	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 held	obj
14	tight	tight	ADV	_	12 held	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 called	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mice	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mice	det
21	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 called	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Come	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Come	punct
24	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 called	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 Come	advmod
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	the Tin Woodman	the dog		Toto's arms		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	hold	past	the Tin Woodman not said here	Toto			tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	call speech: express	past	Toto		the mice			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mouse=Recipient
4	come back in a quote	infinitive	Toto not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «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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