--- title: There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders. Who acts: rushing many wings, sun. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/92/) [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/) / 92 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 92 There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders. **Who acts:** rushing many wings, sun · **What happens:** be, rush, laugh, come out, show, surround · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch 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 (rushing many wings, sun), 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:pg55:14:92 # text = There was a rushing of many wings, a great chattering and laughing, and the sun came out of the dark sky to show the Wicked Witch surrounded by a crowd of monkeys, each with a pair of immense and powerful wings on his shoulders. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 chattering chattering NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:agent _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 immense immense ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a rushing many wings | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **rush** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | a rushing many wings *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come out** | past | the sun | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **show** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* | | the Wicked Witch | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient | | 6 | **surround** | participle | | the Wicked Witch *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/93/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)