The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 153
The wicked woman was greatly pleased with the success of her trick, for as long as she had one of the shoes she owned half the power of their charm, and Dorothy could not use it against her, even had she known how to do so.
Who acts: wicked woman, woman, Dorothy · What happens: be, have, own, not use, know, do · To what, where: one, power, trick
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 woman, woman, 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 success | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 success | det |
| 9 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 trick | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 trick | nmod:poss |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 success | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 long | case |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 long | advmod |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 had | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 had | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 shoes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shoes | det |
| 23 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 owned | nsubj |
| 25 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shoes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 28 power | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 power | det |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 owned | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 charm | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 charm | nmod:poss |
| 31 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 power | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 use | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 use | cc |
| 34 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 use | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 use | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 use | advmod |
| 37 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 use | obj |
| 39 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 use | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 had | punct |
| 42 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 had | advmod |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | conj |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 known | nsubj |
| 45 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 had | xcomp |
| 46 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 48 do | advmod |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 do | mark |
| 48 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 had | xcomp |
| 49 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 do | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wicked woman | with the success of woman's trick; greatly, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | woman | one of the shoes | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 3 | own | past | woman | half power of Shoes's charm | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not use | could | Dorothy | trick | against woman | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | have | past | the wicked woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | know | participle | Dorothy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | do | to-infinitive | the wicked woman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | trick | woman | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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