The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 71
She could not understand how all her plans to destroy these strangers had failed; but she was a powerful Witch, as well as a wicked one, and she soon made up her mind how to act.
Who acts: Witch, strangers · What happens: not understand, destroy, fail, be, make up, act · To what, where: plans, powerful Witch, mind
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 (Witch, strangers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 all | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 plans | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 plans | nmod:poss |
| 8 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understand | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 destroy | mark |
| 10 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plans | acl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 strangers | det |
| 12 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 failed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 failed | aux |
| 14 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 destroy | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Witch | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 Witch | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 Witch | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Witch | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Witch | det |
| 20 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Witch | amod |
| 21 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 understand | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 28 one | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 as | fixed |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 as | fixed |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Witch | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | nsubj |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 made | advmod |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | parataxis |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 made | compound:prt |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mind | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obj |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 act | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 act | mark |
| 39 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | could | Witch | Witch's plans | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | Witch's plans not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fail | past · perfect | this strangers | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Witch | a powerful Witch as a wicked one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make up | past | Witch | Witch's mind | soon property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 6 | act | to-infinitive | Witch not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | plan | Witch | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mind | Witch | nom mind «cognition 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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