The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 52

Others took the Scarecrow and the Woodman and the Lion, and one little Monkey seized Toto and flew after them, although the dog tried hard to bite him.

Who acts: Others, little Monkey, dog · What happens: take, seize, fly, try, bite · To what, where: Scarecrow, one, dog

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 (Others, little Monkey, dog), 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	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Scarecrow	det
4	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Woodman	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woodman	det
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Scarecrow	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Lion	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Lion	det
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woodman	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seized	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seized	obl
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Monkey	amod
15	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seized	nsubj
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
17	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 seized	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flew	cc
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seized	conj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tried	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	26 tried	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tried	nsubj
26	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 flew	conj
27	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tried	xcomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 bite	mark
29	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hard	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bite	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Others	the Scarecrow the Woodman and the Lion			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Theme
2	seize	past	little Monkey	one			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme
3	fly	past	little Monkey not said here		after Monkeys = monkey		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past	the dog			hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	bite	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	dog			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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