--- title: Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the cour… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land. Who acts: Dorothy, Wicked Witch, courtyard. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fran --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/174/) [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/) / 174 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 174 Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land. **Who acts:** Dorothy, Wicked Witch, courtyard · **What happens:** be, do, choose, run out, tell, come · **To what, where:** Lion, end, prisoners, strange land · **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 (Dorothy, Wicked Witch, courtyard), 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:pg55:14:174 # text = Then, being at last free to do as she chose, she ran out to the courtyard to tell the Lion that the Wicked Witch of the West had come to an end, and that they were no longer prisoners in a strange land. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 cop _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 40 no no ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 42 advmod _ _ 42 prisoners prisoner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | gerund | | | | | then | free *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **choose** | past | Dorothy | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run out** | past | Dorothy | | | | | to the courtyard *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Result | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | the Lion | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient | | 6 | **come** | past · perfect | the Wicked Witch of the West | | | | to a end | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **is a** | past | courtyard | prisoners | | a strange land | | long *property* | tree rules | 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 173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/173/) - next →: [Chapter XIII. The Rescue, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)