The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 2

When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her.

Who acts: four travelers, road, travelers, Winged · What happens: go, see, come, send, monkey, bring · To what, where: search, travelers, road, Witch

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four travelers, road, travelers, Winged), 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	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 travelers	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 travelers	nummod
4	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 search	case
7	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Witch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Witch	det
10	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 search	nmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 Witch	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	obj
15	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 seen	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 sent	advmod
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Winged	det
21	Winged	Winged	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Monkeys	nsubj
22	Monkeys	monkey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bring	mark
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Monkeys	xcomp
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the four travelers			search of the Witch	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
2	see	past · perfect	road	travelers = traveler			tree rules
3	come	gerund	travelers = traveler not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send	past					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	monkey	present	the Winged				tree rules
6	bring	to-infinitive	the Winged not said here	travelers = traveler	road		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Destination
7	search			the Witch			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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