The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 60

After a great deal of hard work, for the Lion was heavy, they managed to get him up on the truck.

Who acts: thousands · What happens: be, manage, get up, deal · To what, where: Lion, truck, hard work

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 (thousands), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 deal	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deal	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deal	amod
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 work	amod
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deal	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 Lion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lion	det
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 managed	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 managed	nsubj
16	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 managed	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 get	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 get	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 truck	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truck	det
23	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 get	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				after a great deal of hard work	for the Lion; heavy property	tree rules
2	manage	past	thousands = thousand					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get up	to-infinitive	thousands = thousand not said here	Lion	the truck			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme on truck=Source
4	deal			hard work				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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