The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 59

“Take out my straw and scatter it over the little girl and the dog and the Lion,” he said to the Woodman, “and the bees cannot sting them.”

Who acts: Woodman, Scarecrow, bees · What happens: take out, scatter, say, not sting · To what, where: straw, Woodman · 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 (Woodman, Scarecrow, bees), 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 Take	compound:prt
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 straw	nmod:poss
5	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 scatter	cc
7	scatter	scatter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scatter	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 girl	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 girl	amod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scatter	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dog	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girl	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Lion	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lion	det
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 girl	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Woodman	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Woodman	det
25	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sting	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 sting	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sting	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bees	det
30	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sting	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sting	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 sting	advmod
33	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sting	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take out in a quote	imperative	the Woodman = woodman not said here	my straw			tree rules
2	scatter in a quote	infinitive	the Woodman = woodman not said here	straw		over the little girl and the dog and the Lion	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over girl=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Scarecrow		the Woodman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woodman=Recipient
4	not sting in a quote	can	the bees	Woodman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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