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title: The Wicked Witch was both surprised and worried when she saw the mar… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Wicked Witch was both surprised and worried when she saw the mark on Dorothy’s forehead, for she knew well that neither the Winged Monkeys nor she, herself, dare hurt the girl in any way. Who acts: Wicked Witch, Witch, Winged Monkeys. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 118

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The Wicked Witch was both surprised and worried when she saw the mark on Dorothy’s forehead, for she knew well that neither the Winged Monkeys nor she, herself, dare hurt the girl in any way.

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**Who acts:** Wicked Witch, Witch, Winged Monkeys · **What happens:** be, see, know, hurt · **To what, where:** mark, forehead, girl, way

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wicked Witch, Witch, Winged Monkeys), 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:pg55:14:118
# text = The Wicked Witch was both surprised and worried when she saw the mark on Dorothy’s forehead, for she knew well that neither the Winged Monkeys nor she, herself, dare hurt the girl in any way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
24	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	27	cc:preconj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Winged	Winged	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
33	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	flat:foreign	_	_
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Wicked Witch |  |  |  |  | both, surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Wicked Witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | Witch | the mark |  | Dorothy's forehead |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus |
| 4 | **know** | past | Witch |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hurt** | past | the Winged Monkeys | the girl |  | any way |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Patient |

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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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