--- title: But they could find no way to get out of the castle, for it was cons… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: But they could find no way to get out of the castle, for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who were the slaves of the Wicked Witch and too afraid of her not to do as she told them. Who acts: Shoes, yellow Winkies, Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Cha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/134/) [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/) / 134 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 134 But they could find no way to get out of the castle, for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who were the slaves of the Wicked Witch and too afraid of her not to do as she told them. **Who acts:** Shoes, yellow Winkies, Witch · **What happens:** find, get out, guard, be, not do, tell · **To what, where:** way, castle, slaves, Shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Shoes, yellow Winkies, 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:pg55:14:134 # text = But they could find no way to get out of the castle, for it was constantly guarded by the yellow Winkies, who were the slaves of the Wicked Witch and too afraid of her not to do as she told them. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 constantly constantly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Winkies Winky PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 too too ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | could | Shoes *= shoe* | no way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Shoes *= shoe* *not said here* | the castle | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **guard** | past · passive | the yellow Winkies | way | | | | constantly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is a** | past | the yellow Winkies | the slaves | | | | of the Wicked Witch | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **do** | to-infinitive | the yellow Winkies *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Witch | | Shoes *= shoe* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/133/) - next →: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/135/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)