The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 76
Twice already the Wicked Witch had used the charm of the Cap.
Who acts: Wicked Witch · What happens: use · To what, where: charm
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), 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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 used | advmod |
| 2 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 used | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Witch | det |
| 4 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Witch | amod |
| 5 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 charm | det |
| 9 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Cap | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Cap | det |
| 12 | Cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charm | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · perfect | the Wicked Witch | the charm of the Cap | twice property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient |
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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