The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 101

Here they dropped the poor Woodman, who fell a great distance to the rocks, where he lay so battered and dented that he could neither move nor groan.

Who acts: Monkeys, poor Woodman, Toto · What happens: drop, fall, lie, batter, dent, move · To what, where: poor Woodman, great distance

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkeys, poor 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dropped	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woodman	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Woodman	amod
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Woodman	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 distance	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 distance	amod
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 rocks	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rocks	det
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lay	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 rocks	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 battered	advmod
21	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lay	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dented	cc
23	dented	dent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 battered	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 move	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 move	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 move	aux
27	neither	neither	ADV	_	28 move	advmod
28	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dented	advcl
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 groan	cc
30	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 move	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	Monkeys = monkey	the poor Woodman	here		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme
2	fall	past	the poor Woodman	a great distance		to the rocks result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient distance=Extent to rock=Result
3	lie	past	Toto				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	batter	participle	Toto not said here				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	dent	participle	Toto not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	move	could	Toto			neither property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	groan	infinitive	Toto not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «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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