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title: Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Sil… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore. Who acts: Wicked Witch, girl. 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 clau
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 143

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Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore.

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**Who acts:** Wicked Witch, girl · **What happens:** have, wear · **To what, where:** great longing, Silver Shoes

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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, girl), 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:pg55:14:143
# text = Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Silver	Silver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Shoes	Shoe	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Wicked Witch | a great longing |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the Wicked Witch *not said here* | the Silver Shoes |  |  |  | for Witch's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 3 | **wear** | past | the girl | the Silver Shoes |  |  |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |

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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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