--- title: When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well wit… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next. Who acts: Winkies, Wicked Witch, Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/70/) [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/) / 70 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 70 When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next. **Who acts:** Winkies, Wicked Witch, Witch · **What happens:** return, beat, send back, sit down, think, do · **To what, where:** Winkies, work · **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 (Winkies, Wicked Witch, 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:pg55:14:70 # text = When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 strap strap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 after after ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 next next ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Winkies *= winky* | | | | | to the castle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | | 2 | **beat** | past | the Wicked Witch | Winkies *= winky* | | | | with a strap; well *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with strap=Instrument | | 3 | **send back** | past | | Winkies *= winky* | | Winkies's work | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to work=Destination | | 4 | **sit down** | past | Witch | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **do** | should | Witch | | | | | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 7 | **work** | | Winkies *= winky* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/71/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)