The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 57

“Go to the strangers and sting them to death!” commanded the Witch, and the bees turned and flew rapidly until they came to where Dorothy and her friends were walking.

Who acts: bees, Dorothy · What happens: go, sting, command, turn, fly, come · To what, where: strangers, Witch · 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 (bees, Dorothy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 commanded	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 strangers	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strangers	det
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sting	cc
7	sting	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sting	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 death	case
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sting	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
13	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Witch	det
15	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 commanded	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turned	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bees	det
19	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turned	nsubj
20	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 commanded	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 turned	conj
23	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flew	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 where	case
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 came	obl
29	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 walking	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 friends	cc
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Dorothy	conj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 walking	aux
34	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 where	advcl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	infinitive			the strangers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial_Location
2	sting in a quote	present		strangers = stranger		to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	command	past		the Witch			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient clause=Topic
4	turn	past	the bees				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	fly	past	the bees not said here			rapidly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	bees = bee				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location
7	walk	past · progressive	Dorothy and Dorothy's friends				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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