The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 82

But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends.

Who acts: fierce wolves, Cowardly Lion, Witch, one way · What happens: sting, be, scare away, see, leave, destroy · To what, where: slaves, one way, Dorothy · 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 (fierce wolves, Cowardly Lion, Witch, one way), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 gone	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wolves	nmod:poss
5	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wolves	amod
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crows	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crows	nmod:poss
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crows	amod
10	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wolves	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bees	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bees	nmod:poss
13	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 bees	amod
14	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wolves	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scared	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 slaves	nmod:poss
20	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 scared	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 scared	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 scared	aux:pass
23	scared	scare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 gone	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 scared	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 Lion	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Lion	det
27	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Lion	compound
28	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 scared	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	conj
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 saw	ccomp
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 one	advmod
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 way	nummod
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
37	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 way	acl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 destroy	mark
39	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 left	advcl
40	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 destroy	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 friends	cc
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 friends	nmod:poss
43	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 Dorothy	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Witch's fierce wolves and Witch's wild crows and Witch's stinging bees			now	gone property	tree rules
3	scare away	past · perfect · passive	the Cowardly Lion	Witch's slaves			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	see	past	Witch					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	one way		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	participle		one way not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	destroy	to-infinitive		Dorothy and Witch's friends				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=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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