--- title: Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost. Who acts: bees, girl. A sentence of «The Wonderful --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/144/) [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/) / 144 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 144 Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost. **Who acts:** bees, girl · **What happens:** lie, dry up, use up, get, give, lose · **To what, where:** heaps, power, hold, more power, girl, other things 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 (bees, girl), 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:pg55:14:144 # text = Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 drying dry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 conj _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 advcl _ _ 36 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Silver Silver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 Shoes Shoe PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 45 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 47 amod _ _ 47 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 than than ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 52 det:predet _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obl _ _ 53 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 52 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past · progressive | girl's bees and girl's crows and girl's wolves | | | heaps | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location | | 2 | **dry up** | gerund | girl's bees and girl's crows and girl's wolves *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **use up** | past · perfect | girl | all power of the Golden Cap | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | | 4 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | girl | hold of the Silver Shoes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | | 5 | **give** | would | bees *= bee* | more power | girl | | | than all other things | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient power=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | past · perfect | girl | all other things *not said here* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 7 | **hold** | | | the Silver Shoes | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/145/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)