The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 35

“But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us.”

Who acts: you, Winged Monkeys, Monkeys · What happens: go, call, run away, be, think, plague · To what, where: charm, us · 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 (you, Winged Monkeys, Monkeys), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 call	mark
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkeys	det
10	Winged	Winged	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Monkeys	compound
11	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 run	nsubj
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 run	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 run	aux
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 call	parataxis
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 full	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 full	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 full	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 full	cop
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 run	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 mischief	case
22	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 full	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 think	cc
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 run	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 think	obj
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fun	amod
27	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 think	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 plague	mark
29	plague	plague	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 think	advcl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 plague	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run away in a quote	must	the Winged Monkeys		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	Monkeys = monkey		of mischief; full property	tree rules
5	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	the Winged Monkeys not said here	charm		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme fun=Attribute
6	plague in a quote	to-infinitive	the Winged Monkeys not said here	us		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer

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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