The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 42

And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.”

Who acts: Wicked Witch · What happens: say, fly, peck out, tear · To what, where: King Crow, eyes, crows · 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 (Wicked Witch), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Witch	det
3	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Witch	amod
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Crow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Crow	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Crow	compound
9	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fly	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Fly	punct
12	Fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 Fly	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 strangers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strangers	det
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Fly	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 peck	punct
19	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 peck	compound:prt
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 eyes	nmod:poss
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 peck	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tear	cc
24	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 peck	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tear	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tear	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 peck	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 peck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Wicked Witch		the King Crow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crow=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	infinitive	the Wicked Witch not said here			to the strangers	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	peck out in a quote	infinitive		crows's eyes			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4	tear in a quote	infinitive		crows = crow		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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