The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 60

Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying down to pull the tails of the animals that had no wings, chasing birds, and throwing nuts at the people who walked in the forest.

Who acts: some, animals, people · What happens: be, fly down, pull, have, chase, throw · To what, where: tails, wings, birds, nuts, forest

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 (some, animals, people), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 full	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 some	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 mischief	case
10	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 times	case
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flying	punct
14	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 full	parataxis
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 flying	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pull	mark
17	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 flying	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tails	det
19	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pull	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 animals	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 animals	det
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tails	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 animals	acl:relcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 wings	det
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 chasing	punct
28	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pull	advcl
29	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 chasing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 throwing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 throwing	cc
32	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 flying	conj
33	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 throwing	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 people	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 throwing	obl
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 walked	nsubj
38	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 people	acl:relcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 forest	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 walked	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	some			time	of mischief; full, perhaps property	tree rules
2	fly down	gerund					down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull	to-infinitive		the tails of the animals				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
4	have	past	the animals	no wings				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
5	chase	gerund		birds				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	throw	gerund		nuts			at the people	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at people=Destination
7	walk	past	the people		the forest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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