--- title: Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her cast… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle until they came to the kitchen, where the Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood. Who acts: Dorothy, Woodman, Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Ba --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/124/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/) / 124 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 124 Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle until they came to the kitchen, where the Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood. **Who acts:** Dorothy, Woodman, Witch · **What happens:** follow, come, bade, clean, sweep, keep · **To what, where:** Witch, many, kitchen, Dorothy, pots, floor This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Woodman, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:14:124 # text = Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle until they came to the kitchen, where the Witch bade her clean the pots and kettles and sweep the floor and keep the fire fed with wood. 1 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 until until SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pots pot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 kettles kettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sweep sweep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | Dorothy | Witch | | many of the beautiful rooms in Witch's castle | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through many=Trajectory | | 2 | **come** | past | Woodman | | | the kitchen | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to kitchen=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **bade** | past | the Witch | Dorothy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **clean** | infinitive | the Witch *not said here* | the pots and kettles | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | | 5 | **sweep** | infinitive | the Witch *not said here* | the floor | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | | 6 | **keep** | infinitive | the Witch *not said here* | the fire | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 7 | **feed** | participle | | the fire *not said here* | | | | with wood | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/125/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)