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title: The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s ro… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing. Who acts: Witch, dread, girl, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fr
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 147

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The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.

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**Who acts:** Witch, dread, girl, Dorothy · **What happens:** be, dare, go, take, not come, bath · **To what, where:** room, shoes, water, dark

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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, dread, girl, Dorothy), 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:pg55:14:147
# text = The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy’s room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
42	near	near	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	bathing	bath	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	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 Witch |  |  |  |  | of the dark; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dare** | to-infinitive | the Witch *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | the Witch *not said here* |  |  | Dorothy's room |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Witch *not said here* | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl's dread of water |  |  |  |  | than girl's fear of the dark; great *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **come** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **bath** | past · progressive | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **dread** |  | girl | water |  |  |  |  | nom dread «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 9 | **fear** |  | girl | the dark |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=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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