--- title: But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends. Who acts: fierce wolves, Cowardly Lion, Witch, one way. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/82/) [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/) / 82 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 82 But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends. **Who acts:** fierce wolves, Cowardly Lion, Witch, one way · **What happens:** sting, be, scare away, see, leave, destroy · **To what, where:** slaves, one way, Dorothy · **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 (fierce wolves, Cowardly Lion, Witch, one way), 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:pg55:14:82 # text = But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 stinging sting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 amod _ _ 14 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 scared scare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Cowardly Cowardly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 33 expl _ _ 33 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 37 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 40 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | Witch's fierce wolves and Witch's wild crows and Witch's stinging bees | | | | now | gone *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **scare away** | past · perfect · passive | the Cowardly Lion | Witch's slaves | | | | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | past | Witch | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | one way | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | one way *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | | Dorothy and Witch's friends | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/83/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)