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title: The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they fle… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all. Who acts: bees, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with it
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 61

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The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.

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**Who acts:** bees, Woodman · **What happens:** come, find, sting, fly, break off, hurt · **To what, where:** one, stings, Woodman, all

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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, Woodman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:14:61
# text = The bees came and found no one but the Woodman to sting, so they flew at him and broke off all their stings against the tin, without hurting the Woodman at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the bees |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the bees *not said here* | no one but the Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 3 | **sting** | to-infinitive | the bees *not said here* | no one but the Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fly** | past | bees *= bee* |  |  |  |  | at Scarecrow | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
| 5 | **break off** | past | bees *= bee* *not said here* | Woodman's stings |  |  |  | against the tin | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sting=Patient |
| 6 | **hurt** | gerund | bees *= bee* *not said here* | the Woodman |  | all |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woodman=Patient |
| 7 | **sting** |  | Woodman |  |  |  |  | against the tin | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |

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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.

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**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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