The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 118

The Wicked Witch was both surprised and worried when she saw the mark on Dorothy’s forehead, for she knew well that neither the Winged Monkeys nor she, herself, dare hurt the girl in any way.

Who acts: Wicked Witch, Witch, Winged Monkeys · What happens: be, see, know, hurt · To what, where: mark, forehead, girl, way

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 (Wicked Witch, Witch, Winged Monkeys), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Witch	det
2	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Witch	amod
3	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprised	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worried	cc
8	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	conj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mark	det
13	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 forehead	case
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forehead	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Dorothy	case
17	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mark	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	parataxis
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 knew	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 hurt	mark
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 Monkeys	cc:preconj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Monkeys	det
26	Winged	Winged	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Monkeys	compound
27	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Plur	34 hurt	nsubj
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 herself	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 herself	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 herself	punct
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 Monkeys	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Monkeys	punct
33	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Monkeys	flat:foreign
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 knew	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 girl	det
36	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hurt	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hurt	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Wicked Witch			both, surprised property	tree rules
2	be		the Wicked Witch not said here				tree rules
3	see	past	Witch	the mark	Dorothy's forehead		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
4	know	past	Witch			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hurt	past	the Winged Monkeys	the girl	any way		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=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.

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