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title: The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and wound many coils about his body and head and legs, until he was unable to bite or scratch or struggle in any way. Who acts: remaining Monkeys, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Sear
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 104

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The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and wound many coils about his body and head and legs, until he was unable to bite or scratch or struggle in any way.

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**Who acts:** remaining Monkeys, Toto · **What happens:** throw, woun, be, bite, scratch, struggle · **To what, where:** pieces, many coils, way

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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 (remaining Monkeys, Toto), 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:pg55:14:104
# text = The remaining Monkeys threw pieces of stout rope around the Lion and wound many coils about his body and head and legs, until he was unable to bite or scratch or struggle in any way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wound	woun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the remaining Monkeys | pieces of stout rope |  |  |  | around the Lion | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent piece=Theme around lion=Destination |
| 2 | **woun** | past | the remaining Monkeys *not said here* | many coils |  |  |  | about Toto's body and head and legs | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Toto |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bite** | to-infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **scratch** | infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **struggle** | infinitive | Toto *not said here* |  |  | any way |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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