The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 12

The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry.

Who acts: Winkies, Dorothy, Lion · What happens: lift, carry back, shed, look, plight · To what, where: handle, Yellow Castle, few tears, sad plight, old friend

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winkies, Dorothy, Lion), 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	2 Winkies	det
2	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	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	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lifted	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tenderly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carried	cc
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carried	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 Castle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Castle	det
16	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Castle	amod
17	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shedding	punct
20	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 shedding	nsubj
21	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 carried	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tears	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tears	amod
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shedding	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shedding	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 plight	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plight	det
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plight	amod
31	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shedding	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 friend	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 friend	nmod:poss
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 friend	amod
35	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plight	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looking	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 looking	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Lion	det
39	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 looking	nsubj
40	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lifted	advcl
41	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 looking	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sorry	cc
43	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sober	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	the Winkies	handle				tenderly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	carry back	past	the Winkies not said here	handle	the Yellow Castle		again		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to castle=Destination
3	shed	gerund	Dorothy	a few tears		the sad plight of power's old friend		by the way	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
4	look	gerund	the Lion					sober property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	plight			power's old friend					nom plight «state transitive»: of=patient

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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