--- title: As they passed over the hill the Hammer-Heads yelled with vexation,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: As they passed over the hill the Hammer-Heads yelled with vexation, and shot their heads high in the air, but they could not reach the Winged Monkeys, which carried Dorothy and her comrades safely over the hill and set them down in the beautiful country of the Quadlings. Who acts: travelers. A sente --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/27/) [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 XXII. The Country of the Quadl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/) / 27 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 27 As they passed over the hill the Hammer-Heads yelled with vexation, and shot their heads high in the air, but they could not reach the Winged Monkeys, which carried Dorothy and her comrades safely over the hill and set them down in the beautiful country of the Quadlings. **Who acts:** travelers · **What happens:** pass, yell, shoot, not reach, carry, set down · **To what, where:** hill, Hammer Heads, heads, Winged Monkeys, Dorothy, travelers This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers), 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:pg55:24:27 # text = As they passed over the hill the Hammer-Heads yelled with vexation, and shot their heads high in the air, but they could not reach the Winged Monkeys, which carried Dorothy and her comrades safely over the hill and set them down in the beautiful country of the Quadlings. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 Hammer Hammer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 yelled yell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 vexation vexation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Winged Winged PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 Monkeys Monkey PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 35 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 comrades comrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 39 safely safely ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 40 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 Quadlings quadling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | travelers *= traveler* | | | the hill the Hammer Heads | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over hill=Location | | 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | participle | | the Hammer Heads *not said here* | | | | with vexation | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **shoot** | past | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* | travelers's heads | | | | high *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **not** **reach** | could | travelers *= traveler* | the Winged Monkeys | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | past | | Dorothy and Monkeys's comrades | | the hill | | safely *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | | 6 | **set down** | infinitive | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* | travelers *= traveler* | | the beautiful country of the Quadlings | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in country=Destination | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/28/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/)