The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 62

And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.

Who acts: bees, that · What happens: not live, break, be, lay, scatter, sting · To what, where: stings, end

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, that), 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	_	6 live	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 live	mark
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 broken	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stings	nmod:poss
9	stings	sting	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 broken	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 live	advcl
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 end	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 end	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 bees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bees	det
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bees	amod
19	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 end	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	nsubj
23	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	advcl
24	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lay	xcomp
25	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 scattered	amod
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 Woodman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Woodman	det
28	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 thick	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heaps	punct
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 heaps	case
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heaps	amod
32	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lay	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 coal	case
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 coal	amod
35	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heaps	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not live	can	bees			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	present · passive		bees's stings		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past	that	the end	of the black bees	tree rules
4	lay	present	bees = bee		like little heaps of fine coal	tree rules
5	scatter	participle	bees = bee not said here			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
6	sting		bees = bee			nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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