The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 61

The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.

Who acts: bees, Woodman · What happens: come, find, sting, fly, break off, hurt · To what, where: one, stings, Woodman, all

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, Woodman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bees	det
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 Woodman	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Woodman	det
10	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sting	mark
12	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 one	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flew	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 flew	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flew	nsubj
16	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 flew	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 broke	cc
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 flew	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 broke	compound:prt
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 stings	det:predet
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 stings	nmod:poss
24	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 broke	obj
25	against	against	ADP	_	27 tin	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tin	det
27	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stings	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hurting	punct
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 hurting	mark
30	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 broke	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Woodman	det
32	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hurting	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 hurting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bees				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	the bees not said here	no one but the Woodman			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	sting	to-infinitive	the bees not said here	no one but the Woodman not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	fly	past	bees = bee			at Scarecrow	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
5	break off	past	bees = bee not said here	Woodman's stings		against the tin	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sting=Patient
6	hurt	gerund	bees = bee not said here	the Woodman	all		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woodman=Patient
7	sting		Woodman			against the tin	nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent against=obl

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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