The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 48

When they saw the Witch of the East was dead the Munchkins sent a swift messenger to me, and I came at once.

Who acts: Munchkins, Witch, I · What happens: see, be, send, come · To what, where: swift messenger, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Munchkins, Witch, I), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Witch	det
5	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dead	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 East	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 East	det
8	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Witch	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dead	cop
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Munchkins	det
12	Munchkins	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 sent	nsubj
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 messenger	det
15	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 messenger	amod
16	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 once	case
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 came	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Munchkins = munchkin				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the Witch of the East			dead property	tree rules
3	send	past	the Munchkins	a swift messenger	me		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to i=Destination
4	come	past	I				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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