The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 149

But the wicked creature was very cunning, and she finally thought of a trick that would give her what she wanted.

Who acts: wicked creature, Witch, trick · What happens: be, think, give, want · To what, where: Witch

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 creature, Witch, trick), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 cunning	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creature	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cunning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cunning	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cunning	advmod
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
11	finally	finally	ADV	_	12 thought	advmod
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cunning	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 trick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 give	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trick	acl:relcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 wanted	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 give	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cunning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wicked creature		cunning property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Witch		of a trick; finally property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	would	a trick	Witch		tree rules
4	want	past	Witch			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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