The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 22

Then he said, “The Winkies were very kind to me, and wanted me to rule over them after the Wicked Witch died.

Who acts: Woodman, Winkies, Wicked Witch · What happens: say, be, want, rule, die · To what, where: Woodman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, Winkies, Wicked Witch), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Winkies	det
7	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 kind	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 kind	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rule	mark
18	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rule	obl
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Witch	det
23	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Witch	amod
24	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rule	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Woodman			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the Winkies		Woodman		kind property	tree rules
3	want in a quote	past	Woodman not said here	Woodman				tree rules
4	rule not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Woodman not said here				over Winkies = winky	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	die in a quote	past	the Wicked Witch					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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