The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 160

Instantly the wicked woman gave a loud cry of fear, and then, as Dorothy looked at her in wonder, the Witch began to shrink and fall away.

Who acts: wicked woman, Dorothy, Witch, fear · What happens: give, look, begin, shrink, fall away, cry · To what, where: loud cry, wonder

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, Dorothy, Witch, fear), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cry	det
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cry	amod
8	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fear	case
10	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cry	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 looked	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 looked	mark
16	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 wonder	case
21	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Witch	det
24	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 began	nsubj
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 shrink	mark
27	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fall	cc
29	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 shrink	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 fall	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the wicked woman	a loud cry of fear			instantly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
2	look	past	Dorothy		wonder	then	at woman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	begin	past	the Witch					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	shrink	to-infinitive	the Witch not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	fall away	infinitive	the Witch not said here				away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	cry		fear					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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