The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 148

Indeed, the old Witch never touched water, nor ever let water touch her in any way.

Who acts: old Witch, water · What happens: not touch, let, touch · To what, where: water, Witch, 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 (old Witch, water), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 touched	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Witch	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Witch	amod
5	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 touched	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 touched	advmod
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 let	cc
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 touched	conj
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
14	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touch	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touch	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	past	the old Witch	water			indeed property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
2	let	infinitive	the old Witch not said here	water		ever		tree rules
3	touch	infinitive	water not said here	Witch	any way			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme

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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