The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 17

She sat down on the grass and looked at her companions, and they sat down and looked at her, and Toto found that for the first time in his life he was too tired to chase a butterfly that flew past his head.

Who acts: heart, companions, Toto, butterfly · What happens: sit down, look, find, be, chase, fly · To what, where: grass, butterfly, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, companions, Toto, butterfly), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 companions	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 companions	nmod:poss
11	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
23	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 tired	mark
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tired	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 life	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	nmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tired	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	cop
35	too	too	ADV	_	36 tired	advmod
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 chase	mark
38	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 tired	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 butterfly	det
40	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 chase	obj
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 flew	nsubj
42	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 butterfly	acl:relcl
43	past	past	ADP	_	45 head	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 flew	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	heart		the grass			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	look	past	heart not said here				at heart's companions	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at companion=Theme
3	sit down	past	companions = companion				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	companions = companion not said here				at heart	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
5	find	past	Toto					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Toto			time	tired property	tree rules
7	chase	to-infinitive	Toto not said here	a butterfly				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme
8	fly	past	a butterfly		Toto's head			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past head=Trajectory

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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