The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 124

Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle until they came to the kitchen, where the Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood.

Who acts: Dorothy, Woodman, Witch · What happens: follow, come, bade, clean, sweep, keep · To what, where: Witch, many, kitchen, Dorothy, pots, floor

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 (Dorothy, Woodman, Witch), 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	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 many	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 followed	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 rooms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rooms	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rooms	amod
9	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 many	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 castle	nmod:poss
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rooms	nmod
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bade	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 bade	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Witch	det
22	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bade	nsubj
23	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	obj
25	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bade	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pots	det
27	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clean	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kettles	cc
29	kettles	kettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pots	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sweep	cc
31	sweep	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 clean	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sweep	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 keep	cc
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sweep	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obj
38	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fire	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 wood	case
40	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Dorothy	Witch	many of the beautiful rooms in Witch's castle		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through many=Trajectory
2	come	past	Woodman		the kitchen		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial_Location
3	bade	past	the Witch	Dorothy			tree rules
4	clean	infinitive	the Witch not said here	the pots and kettles			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
5	sweep	infinitive	the Witch not said here	the floor			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory
6	keep	infinitive	the Witch not said here	the fire			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
7	feed	participle		the fire not said here		with wood	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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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