The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 121
So the Wicked Witch laughed to herself, and thought, “I can still make her my slave, for she does not know how to use her power.”
Who acts: Wicked Witch, Witch · What happens: laugh, think, make, not know, use · To what, where: Witch, slave, power · 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 3 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Witch | amod |
| 4 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 laughed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 slave | nmod:poss |
| 19 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 know | advmod |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | advcl |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 use | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 use | mark |
| 28 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 know | ccomp |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 power | nmod:poss |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 use | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the Wicked Witch | Witch | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Wicked Witch not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | can | the Wicked Witch = witch | my slave | Witch | still | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary slave=Product | ||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Witch | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | use in a quote | to-infinitive | Witch's power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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