The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 134

But they could find no way to get out of the castle, for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who were the slaves of the Wicked Witch and too afraid of her not to do as she told them.

Who acts: Shoes, yellow Winkies, Witch · What happens: find, get out, guard, be, not do, tell · To what, where: way, castle, slaves, Shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Shoes, yellow Winkies, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 find	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 castle	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 guarded	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 guarded	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 guarded	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 guarded	aux:pass
17	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	18 guarded	advmod
18	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 find	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 Winkies	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Winkies	det
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Winkies	amod
22	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 guarded	obl:agent
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 slaves	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 slaves	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 slaves	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 slaves	det
27	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Winkies	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Witch	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Witch	det
30	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Witch	amod
31	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slaves	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 afraid	cc
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 afraid	advmod
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 guarded	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	obl
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 do	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 afraid	ccomp
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 told	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 told	nsubj
42	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 do	advcl
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 told	iobj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	could	Shoes = shoe	no way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	get out	to-infinitive	Shoes = shoe not said here	the castle			tree rules
3	guard	past · passive	the yellow Winkies	way		constantly property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary
4	is a	past	the yellow Winkies	the slaves		of the Wicked Witch	tree rules
5	not do	to-infinitive	the yellow Winkies not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	past	Witch		Shoes = shoe		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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