The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 21

They were a long distance off, but the Wicked Witch was angry to find them in her country; so she blew upon a silver whistle that hung around her neck.

Who acts: friends, Wicked Witch, Witch, silver whistle · What happens: be, find, blow, hang · To what, where: long distance, friends, country, neck

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 (friends, Wicked Witch, Witch, silver whistle), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 distance	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distance	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 distance	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 distance	amod
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 distance	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 angry	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 angry	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Witch	det
10	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Witch	amod
11	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 angry	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 angry	cop
13	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 distance	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 angry	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 country	nmod:poss
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 blew	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 blew	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 blew	nsubj
23	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 distance	conj
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 whistle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 whistle	det
26	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 whistle	amod
27	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blew	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hung	nsubj
29	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 whistle	acl:relcl
30	around	around	ADP	_	32 neck	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 neck	nmod:poss
32	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hung	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 distance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	friends = friend	a long distance			tree rules
2	is	past	the Wicked Witch			angry property	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	the Wicked Witch not said here	friends = friend	Witch's country		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	blow	past	Witch			upon a silver whistle	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	hang	past	a silver whistle		Witch's neck		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around neck=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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