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title: The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter XIII. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter XIII. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 15

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The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter XIII.

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:14`): 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:1:15
# text = The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter XIII.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	XIII	XIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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