The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 132

The reason the Lion did not have to do as the Witch wished was that every night, while the woman was asleep, Dorothy carried him food from the cupboard.

Who acts: Lion, reason, Witch, Dorothy · What happens: not have, do, wish, be, carry · To what, where: reason, Scarecrow, cupboard

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 (Lion, reason, Witch, Dorothy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asleep	nsubj:outer
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reason	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 wished	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Witch	det
12	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 wished	nsubj
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
15	that	that	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 asleep	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 asleep	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
25	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 carried	nsubj
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	obj
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 cupboard	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cupboard	det
31	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	the Lion	the reason not said here				tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the reason not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	the Witch					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	the reason				asleep property	tree rules
5	carry	past	Dorothy		Scarecrow	the cupboard		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary food=Value

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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