The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 18

The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after destroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no reply.

Who acts: soldier, news, Dorothy, Oz · What happens: have, carry, come back, destroy, make · To what, where: Oz, Wicked Witch, reply

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, news, Dorothy, Oz), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 news	det
5	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carried	nsubj
6	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Oz	case
9	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 carried	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
11	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 travelers	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 travelers	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 travelers	amod
15	travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Dorothy	conj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 carried	advcl
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 destroying	punct
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 destroying	mark
22	destroying	destroy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 come	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Witch	det
24	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Witch	amod
25	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 destroying	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
28	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 made	nsubj
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 reply	det
31	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the soldier					tree rules
2	carry	past	the news		Oz		straight property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to oz=Destination
3	come back	past · perfect	Dorothy and the other travelers			again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	destroy	gerund	Dorothy and the other travelers not said here	the Wicked Witch				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
5	make	past	Oz	no reply				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product

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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