The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 105

Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch’s castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.

Who acts: Monkeys, Toto · What happens: lift up, fly away, place, not escape · To what, where: Toto

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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lifted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 flew	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flew	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Witch	det
13	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 castle	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Witch	case
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 placed	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 placed	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 placed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 placed	aux:pass
20	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 castle	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 yard	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 yard	det
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 yard	amod
24	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 placed	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	29 fence	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fence	det
27	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fence	amod
28	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fence	compound
29	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 yard	nmod
30	around	around	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fence	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 escape	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 escape	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 escape	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 escape	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 escape	advmod
38	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 flew	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	Monkeys = monkey	Toto	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fly away	past	Monkeys = monkey not said here			with Toto; to the Witch's castle result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result
3	place	past · passive		Toto		in a small yard with a high iron fence around fence	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in yard=Destination
4	not escape	could	Toto				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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