The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 144

Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost.

Who acts: bees, girl · What happens: lie, dry up, use up, get, give, lose · To what, where: heaps, power, hold, more power, girl, other things

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 (bees, girl), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bees	nmod:poss
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lying	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crows	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 crows	nmod:poss
5	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bees	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wolves	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wolves	nmod:poss
8	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bees	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lying	aux
10	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 heaps	case
12	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lying	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drying	cc
14	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 lying	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 drying	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 used	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 used	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 used	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 used	aux
20	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 lying	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 used	compound:prt
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 power	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 power	det
24	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 used	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 Cap	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Cap	det
27	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Cap	amod
28	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 power	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 give	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 give	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 give	advcl
36	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 Shoes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Shoes	det
39	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Shoes	compound
40	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	Number=Plur	36 hold	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 give	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 give	aux
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 used	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 give	iobj
46	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 power	amod
47	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	obj
48	than	than	ADP	_	52 things	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 things	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 things	det
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 things	amod
52	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 give	obl
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 lost	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 lost	aux
55	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 things	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	girl's bees and girl's crows and girl's wolves			heaps		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location
2	dry up	gerund	girl's bees and girl's crows and girl's wolves not said here					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use up	past · perfect	girl	all power of the Golden Cap				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	get a condition, not said to happen	could	girl	hold of the Silver Shoes				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
5	give	would	bees = bee	more power	girl		than all other things	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme
6	lose	past · perfect	girl	all other things not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
7	hold			the Silver Shoes				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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