The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 66

And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.

Who acts: Witch, slaves · What happens: call, be, give, tell, go, destroy · To what, where: dozen, Winkies, sharp spears, bees, strangers · 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 (Witch, slaves), 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	_	4 called	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 called	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dozen	det
6	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 called	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 slaves	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slaves	nmod:poss
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dozen	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Winkies	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 Winkies	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Winkies	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Winkies	det
14	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 slaves	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spears	amod
20	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 telling	punct
22	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 gave	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 telling	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 telling	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 strangers	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 strangers	det
28	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 go	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 destroy	cc
30	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 destroy	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	call	past	Witch	a dozen of Witch's slaves and the Winkies			then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dozen=Recipient
2	is a	past	Witch's slaves and the Winkies	the Winkies				tree rules
3	give	past	Witch not said here	sharp spears	bees = bee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient spear=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	Witch not said here		bees = bee			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Witch not said here			the strangers		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stranger=Initial_Location
6	destroy	infinitive	Witch not said here	bees = bee				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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