The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 124

“One of my greatest fears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things.

Who acts: most, Witches, my · What happens: be, have, find out, do, fear · To what, where: One Witches, magical powers, all, wonderful things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, Witches, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Witches	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Witches	nummod
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 fears	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fears	nmod:poss
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 fears	amod
6	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 One	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Witches	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Witches	det
9	Witches	Witch	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Witches	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 powers	det
16	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 powers	amod
17	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 had	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 found	advmod
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 found	compound:prt
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Witches	det
26	Witches	Witch	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 able	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 able	cop
28	really	really	ADV	_	29 able	advmod
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 found	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 things	amod
33	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 do	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Witches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		the One Witches			tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	most of people = most	no magical powers	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	find out in a quote	past	most of people = most			soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the Witches			able property	tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the Witches not said here	wonderful things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
6	fear in a quote		my				nom fear «feeling 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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