The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 111

So, carefully and gently, they lifted Dorothy in their arms and carried her swiftly through the air until they came to the castle, where they set her down upon the front doorstep.

Who acts: faces · What happens: lift, carry, come, set down · To what, where: Dorothy, arms, air, castle, front doorstep

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 (faces), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 lifted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 carefully	punct
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 lifted	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gently	cc
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 carefully	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lifted	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lifted	nsubj
8	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 arms	nmod:poss
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lifted	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 carried	cc
14	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifted	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 carried	obj
16	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	14 carried	advmod
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carried	obl
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 carried	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 castle	det
25	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 set	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 set	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 castle	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 set	compound:prt
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 doorstep	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 doorstep	det
34	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 doorstep	amod
35	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	faces = face	Dorothy	faces's arms	carefully property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme in arm=Destination
2	carry	past	faces = face not said here	Dorothy	the air	swiftly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	come	past	faces = face		the castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
4	set down	past	faces = face	Dorothy	the front doorstep		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon doorstep=Destination

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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