The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 143
Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore.
Who acts: Wicked Witch, girl · What happens: have, wear · To what, where: great longing, Silver Shoes
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, girl), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | 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 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 longing | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 longing | amod |
| 8 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 longing | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Shoes | det |
| 15 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Shoes | compound |
| 16 | Shoes | Shoe | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wore | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 wore | advmod |
| 21 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Shoes | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Wicked Witch | a great longing | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the Wicked Witch not said here | the Silver Shoes | for Witch's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | |||
| 3 | wear | past | the girl | the Silver Shoes | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
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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