The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 51

“We will carry you,” replied the King, and no sooner had he spoken than two of the Monkeys caught Dorothy in their arms and flew away with her.

Who acts: We, King, Monkeys · What happens: carry, reply, speak, catch, fly away · To what, where: you, Dorothy, arms · 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 (We, King, 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	_	4 carry	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 carry	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 carry	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spoken	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spoken	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 sooner	det
14	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 spoken	advmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoken	aux
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spoken	nsubj
17	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 replied	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 two	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 spoken	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 caught	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Monkeys	det
22	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 caught	nsubj
23	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spoken	advcl
24	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 caught	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 arms	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 caught	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flew	cc
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caught	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flew	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry in a quote	future	We	you			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	past · perfect	King			than two; soon property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	catch	past	the Monkeys	Dorothy	Monkeys's arms		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme
5	fly away	past	the Monkeys not said here			with child; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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