The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 21

The waiting was tiresome and wearing, and at last they grew vexed that Oz should treat them in so poor a fashion, after sending them to undergo hardships and slavery.

Who acts: waiting, Oz · What happens: be, wear, vex, treat, send, undergo · To what, where: travelers, last, poor fashion, hardships

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 (waiting, 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 waiting	det
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tiresome	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tiresome	cop
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wearing	cc
6	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tiresome	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vexed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 vexed	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vexed	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 vexed	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 vexed	aux:pass
13	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tiresome	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 treat	mark
15	Oz	Oz	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 treat	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 treat	aux
17	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 vexed	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 treat	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 fashion	case
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 poor	advmod
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fashion	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fashion	det
23	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 treat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sending	punct
25	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 sending	mark
26	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 treat	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sending	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 undergo	mark
29	undergo	undergo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sending	advcl
30	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 undergo	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 slavery	cc
32	slavery	slavery	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hardships	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tiresome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the waiting			tiresome property	tree rules
2	wear	gerund	the waiting not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	vex	past · passive		travelers = traveler	last		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	treat	should	Oz	travelers = traveler	a poor fashion		vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	send	gerund	Oz not said here	travelers = traveler			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	undergo	to-infinitive	Oz not said here	hardships and slavery			tree rules

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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