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title: Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed. Who acts: you, Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 100

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Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed.

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**Who acts:** you, Witch · **What happens:** remember, be, kill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:13:100
# text = Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed.
1	Remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Witch |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **kill** | ought · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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.

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**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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