The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 22
At once there came running to her from all directions a pack of great wolves.
Who acts: pack · What happens: come, run · To what, where: Witch, directions
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 (pack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:900): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 running | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 directions | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 directions | det |
| 10 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 running | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pack | det |
| 12 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wolves | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wolves | amod |
| 15 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pack | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a pack of great wolves | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a pack of great wolves not said here | Witch | all directions | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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