The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 80

But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap.

Who acts: grandfather, Monkeys, Quelala, Gayelette, Winged Monkeys · What happens: plead, know, drown, tie, say, spare · To what, where: river, wings, kind word, Monkeys, condition, owner · 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 (grandfather, Monkeys, Quelala, Gayelette), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 pleaded	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 grandfather	nmod:poss
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleaded	nsubj
4	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 pleaded	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knew	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleaded	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkeys	det
11	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drown	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drown	aux
13	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 knew	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drown	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 wings	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wings	nmod:poss
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drown	obl
20	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 wings	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	Quelala	Quelala	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleaded	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 word	det
26	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 word	amod
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 word	nmod
30	also	also	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 spared	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 spared	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	Gayelette	Gayelette	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 spared	nsubj
35	finally	finally	ADV	_	36 spared	advmod
36	spared	spare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 spared	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 condition	punct
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 condition	case
40	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spared	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 do	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Monkeys	det
43	Winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 Monkeys	amod
44	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 do	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 do	aux
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 after	advmod
47	after	after	ADV	_	48 do	advmod
48	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 condition	acl:relcl
49	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 times	nummod
50	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 do	obl:unmarked
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bidding	det
52	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 times	nmod:unmarked
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 owner	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 owner	det
55	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bidding	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 Cap	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Cap	det
58	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Cap	amod
59	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 owner	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	my grandfather				hard property	tree rules
2	know	past	grandfather					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	drown	would	the Monkeys		the river		with Monkeys's wings	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument
4	tie	participle		Monkeys's wings not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Quelala	a kind word			for Monkeys = monkey	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	spare	past	Gayelette	Monkeys = monkey	condition		finally property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset
7	wing	participle						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	do	should	the Winged Monkeys	condition not said here		time	after property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Eventuality
9	bid			the owner of the Golden Cap				nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=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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