The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 70
When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next.
Who acts: Winkies, Wicked Witch, Witch · What happens: return, beat, send back, sit down, think, do · To what, where: Winkies, work · 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 (Winkies, Wicked Witch, Witch), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beat | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Witch | det |
| 8 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Witch | amod |
| 9 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | nsubj |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 beat | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 strap | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 strap | det |
| 15 | strap | strap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beat | parataxis |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 sent | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 work | nmod:poss |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sat | punct |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 sat | obl |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sat | nsubj |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 sat | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 think | mark |
| 31 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sat | advcl |
| 32 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 do | obj |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 do | nsubj |
| 34 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 think | ccomp |
| 36 | next | next | ADV | _ | 35 do | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Winkies = winky | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | beat | past | the Wicked Witch | Winkies = winky | with a strap; well property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with strap=Instrument | |||
| 3 | send back | past | Winkies = winky | Winkies's work | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to work=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | Witch | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do | should | Witch | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | work | Winkies = winky | nom work «act intransitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/70/