The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 102
Others of the Monkeys caught the Scarecrow, and with their long fingers pulled all of the straw out of his clothes and head.
Who acts: Others · What happens: catch, pull · To what, where: Scarecrow, all, clothes
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 (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Monkeys | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Monkeys | det |
| 4 | Monkeys | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Others | nmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Scarecrow | det |
| 7 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pulled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pulled | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fingers | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fingers | amod |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pulled | obl |
| 14 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 pulled | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 straw | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 straw | det |
| 18 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 all | nmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 clothes | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 pulled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 head | cc |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clothes | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Others of the Monkeys | the Scarecrow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | Others of the Monkeys not said here | all | Toto's clothes and head | with Monkeys's long fingers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent all=Theme out clothes=Initial_Location |
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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