The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 104

The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and wound many coils about his body and head and legs, until he was unable to bite or scratch or struggle in any way.

Who acts: remaining Monkeys, Toto · What happens: throw, woun, be, bite, scratch, struggle · To what, where: pieces, many coils, way

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 (remaining Monkeys, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Monkeys	det
2	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Monkeys	amod
3	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	nsubj
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rope	case
7	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rope	amod
8	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	nmod
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 Lion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lion	det
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wound	cc
13	wound	woun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coils	amod
15	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 wound	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 body	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coils	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 head	cc
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 body	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 legs	cc
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 body	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unable	punct
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 unable	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 unable	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unable	cop
27	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wound	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bite	mark
29	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 unable	xcomp
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 scratch	cc
31	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bite	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 struggle	cc
33	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 bite	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 way	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 struggle	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the remaining Monkeys	pieces of stout rope		around the Lion	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent piece=Theme around lion=Destination
2	woun	past	the remaining Monkeys not said here	many coils		about Toto's body and head and legs	tree rules
3	is	past	Toto			unable property	tree rules
4	bite	to-infinitive	Toto not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	scratch	infinitive	Toto not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	struggle	infinitive	Toto not said here		any way		vn battle-36.4 «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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