The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 174

Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land.

Who acts: Dorothy, Wicked Witch, courtyard · What happens: be, do, choose, run out, tell, come · To what, where: Lion, end, prisoners, strange land · 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 (Dorothy, Wicked Witch, courtyard), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 free	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 free	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 free	case
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 free	amod
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 free	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 chose	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chose	nsubj
11	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 free	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 ran	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 courtyard	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 courtyard	det
18	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ran	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Lion	det
22	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Witch	det
25	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Witch	amod
26	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 West	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 West	det
29	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Witch	nmod
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 tell	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 prisoners	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 prisoners	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 prisoners	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 prisoners	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 prisoners	cop
40	no	no	ADV	_	41 longer	advmod
41	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	42 prisoners	advmod
42	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 free	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 land	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 land	det
45	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 land	amod
46	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 prisoners	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					then	free property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choose	past	Dorothy						vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	run out	past	Dorothy					to the courtyard result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Result
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here		the Lion				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient
6	come	past · perfect	the Wicked Witch of the West				to a end		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
7	is a	past	courtyard	prisoners		a strange land		long property	tree rules

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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