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title: Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks. Who acts: Some, Monkeys. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 100

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Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks.

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**Who acts:** Some, Monkeys · **What happens:** seize, carry, be, cover · **To what, where:** Tin Woodman, Toto, air, country

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, Monkeys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:14:100
# text = Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past | Some | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Some *not said here* | Toto |  | the air |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | a country |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a country *not said here* |  |  |  | with sharp rocks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rock=Theme |

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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.

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**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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