The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 127

As it was, I lived in deadly fear of them for many years; so you can imagine how pleased I was when I heard your house had fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East.

Who acts: harm, I, you, house · What happens: be, live, imagine, hear, fall, fear · To what, where: deadly fear, fears · 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 (harm, I, you, house), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 fear	case
8	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fear	amod
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fear	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 imagine	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 imagine	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 imagine	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 imagine	aux
19	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 pleased	advmod
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 imagine	xcomp
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 pleased	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pleased	cop
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 heard	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pleased	advcl
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 house	nmod:poss
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fallen	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fallen	aux
30	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 heard	ccomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 Witch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Witch	det
33	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Witch	amod
34	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fallen	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 East	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 East	det
37	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Witch	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	harm					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	I		deadly fear of fears	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fear=Location
3	imagine	can	you					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	I				pleased property	tree rules
5	hear	past	I					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fall	past · perfect	your house				on the Wicked Witch of the East	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on witch=Location
7	fear			fears = fear				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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