The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 26

What could the little woman possibly mean by calling her a sorceress, and saying she had killed the Wicked Witch of the East?

Who acts: little woman, woman · What happens: mean, call, say, kill · To what, where: woman, Wicked Witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little woman, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:111): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mean	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
6	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	7 mean	advmod
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 calling	mark
9	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mean	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 calling	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sorceress	det
12	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 calling	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saying	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saying	cc
15	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 calling	conj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 killed	aux
18	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 saying	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Witch	det
20	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Witch	amod
21	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 killed	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 East	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 East	det
24	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Witch	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	could	the little woman			possibly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	call	gerund	the little woman not said here		woman		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the little woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kill	past · perfect	woman	the Wicked Witch of the East			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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