The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 77

Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves, and set herself to rule over their country.

Who acts: Winkies, you · What happens: make, set, rule · To what, where: Witch, country

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, you), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 made	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 made	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 set	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Winkies	det
8	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 made	obl:agent
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 slaves	nmod:poss
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Winkies	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 set	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 rule	mark
16	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	xcomp
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 country	nmod:poss
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rule	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect · passive	the Winkies	Witch		once property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product
2	set	imperative	you not said here	Witch			tree rules
3	rule	to-infinitive	you not said here		slaves's country		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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