The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 73

At his word the band flew down and seized Quelala, carried him in their arms until they were over the middle of the river, and then dropped him into the water.

Who acts: band, arms, grandfather · What happens: fly down, seize, carry, be, drop, word · To what, where: word, Quelala, grandfather, arms, middle, water

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 (band, arms, grandfather), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 word	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 word	nmod:poss
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 band	det
5	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seized	cc
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
10	Quelala	Quelala	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carried	punct
12	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 arms	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arms	nmod:poss
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carried	obl
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 middle	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 middle	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 middle	cop
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 middle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 middle	det
22	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 middle	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dropped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dropped	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 dropped	advmod
29	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dropped	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 water	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dropped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	the band		grandfather's word		down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	seize	past	the band not said here	Quelala				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quelala=Theme
3	carry	past	the band not said here	grandfather	words's arms			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
4	is	past	arms = arm		the middle		of the river	tree rules
5	drop	past	the band not said here	grandfather	the water	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into water=Destination
6	word		grandfather					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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