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title: The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before. Who acts: Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 139

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The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before.

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**Who acts:** Witch · **What happens:** not bleed, bite, be, dry up · **To what, where:** Witch

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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 (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:pg55:14:139
# text = The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	bleed	bleed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bleed** | past · do-support | the Witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **bite** | past · passive |  | Witch |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Witch |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dry up** | past · perfect | the Witch *not said here* |  |  |  | year | before *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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