The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 90

The strange creatures set the travelers down carefully before the gate of the City, the King bowed low to Dorothy, and then flew swiftly away, followed by all his band.

Who acts: strange creatures, King · What happens: set down, bow, fly, follow · To what, where: travelers, gate, Dorothy

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 (strange creatures, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:1129): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creatures	det
2	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creatures	amod
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 travelers	det
6	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	11 gate	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gate	det
11	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 City	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 City	det
14	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gate	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bowed	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bowed	nsubj
18	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
19	low	low	ADV	_	18 bowed	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Dorothy	case
21	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 bowed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 flew	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 flew	advmod
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bowed	conj
26	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 flew	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 followed	punct
29	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 flew	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 band	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 band	det:predet
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 band	nmod:poss
33	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 followed	obl:agent
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set down	past	the strange creatures	the travelers		the gate of the City		carefully property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme before gate=Destination
2	bow	past	the King		Dorothy			low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to dorothy=Pivot
3	fly	past	the King not said here				then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	participle	the King not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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