The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 135

The girl had to work hard during the day, and often the Witch threatened to beat her with the same old umbrella she always carried in her hand.

Who acts: girl, Witch · What happens: have, work, threaten, beat, carry · To what, where: Witch, same old umbrella, hand

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 (girl, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 work	advmod
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threatened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threatened	cc
12	often	often	ADV	_	15 threatened	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Witch	det
14	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threatened	nsubj
15	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 beat	mark
17	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 threatened	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beat	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	23 umbrella	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 umbrella	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 umbrella	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 umbrella	amod
23	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beat	obl
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	nsubj
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 carried	advmod
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 umbrella	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the girl					tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the girl not said here			day	hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	threaten	past	the Witch				often property	tree rules
4	beat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here	Witch			with the same old umbrella	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with umbrella=Instrument
5	carry	past	Witch	the same old umbrella not said here	Witch's hand		always property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent umbrella=Value in hand=Location

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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