---
title: “Kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” answered Oz. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” answered Oz. Who acts: Oz.. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/91/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 91

# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 91

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” answered Oz.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Oz. · **What happens:** kill, answer · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Oz.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg55:13:91
# text = “Kill the Wicked Witch of the West,” answered Oz.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the Wicked Witch of the West |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Oz. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/90/)
- next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/92/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/)