The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 19
Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere.
Who acts: Wicked Witch, that · What happens: have, be, see · To what, where: one eye
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 Witch, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 3 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Witch | amod |
| 4 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 West | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 West | det |
| 7 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Witch | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 eye | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eye | nummod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 powerful | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 17 powerful | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 powerful | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 powerful | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 powerful | advmod |
| 17 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 had | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 telescope | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 telescope | det |
| 20 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 powerful | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | conj |
| 25 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 see | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Wicked Witch of the West | one eye | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | as a telescope; powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | could | the Wicked Witch of the West not said here | everywhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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