The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 147

The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.

Who acts: Witch, dread, girl, Dorothy · What happens: be, dare, go, take, not come, bath · To what, where: room, shoes, water, dark

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 (Witch, dread, girl, Dorothy), 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	2 Witch	det
2	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afraid	amod
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dare	mark
11	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	advcl
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dare	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 room	case
14	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 room	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Dorothy	case
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dare	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 take	mark
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dare	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shoes	det
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 greater	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 greater	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dread	nmod:poss
26	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 greater	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 water	case
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dread	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 greater	cop
30	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 afraid	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 fear	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fear	nmod:poss
33	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 greater	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 dark	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dark	det
36	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fear	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	41 came	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 came	nsubj
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 came	advmod
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
42	near	near	ADV	_	41 came	advmod
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 bathing	advmod
44	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 bathing	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bathing	aux
46	bathing	bath	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 came	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Witch				of the dark; afraid property	tree rules
2	dare	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here			night		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive	the Witch not said here		Dorothy's room			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location
4	take	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here	the shoes				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
5	is	past	girl's dread of water				than girl's fear of the dark; great property	tree rules
6	not come	past	girl				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bath	past · progressive	Dorothy					tree rules
8	dread		girl	water				nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
9	fear		girl	the dark				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=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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