The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 74

So the old woman went to the Wicked Witch of the East, and promised her two sheep and a cow if she would prevent the marriage.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: go, promise, prevent · To what, where: two sheep, woman, marriage

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Witch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Witch	det
8	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Witch	amod
9	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 East	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 East	det
12	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Witch	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 promised	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 promised	cc
15	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 promised	iobj
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sheep	nummod
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 promised	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cow	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cow	det
21	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sheep	conj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 prevent	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 prevent	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 prevent	aux
25	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promised	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 marriage	det
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prevent	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old woman			to the Wicked Witch of the East	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to witch=Initial_Location
2	promise speech: promise	past	the old woman not said here	two sheep and a cow	woman		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal sheep=Theme
3	prevent a condition, not said to happen	would	woman	the marriage			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer marriage=Theme

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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