The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 33

There were forty wolves, and forty times a wolf was killed, so that at last they all lay dead in a heap before the Woodman.

Who acts: forty wolves, wolves · What happens: be, kill, lay · To what, where: forty times, heap

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 (forty wolves, wolves), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 wolves	nummod
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 killed	cc
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 killed	nsubj:pass
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 killed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	aux:pass
12	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 last	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 last	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 last	mark
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 killed	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lay	advmod
20	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 last	parataxis
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lay	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 heap	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heap	det
24	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 Woodman	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Woodman	det
27	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	forty wolves		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past · passive		forty times				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	lay	present	wolves = wolf		a heap	before the Woodman	dead property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination

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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