--- title: “I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes. Who acts: Dorothy. 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 th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/163/) [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 XII. The Search for the Wicked…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/) / 163 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 163 “I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes. **Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** be, say, frighten, see, melt away · **To what, where:** Dorothy, Witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Dorothy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:14:163 # text = “I’m very sorry, indeed,” said Dorothy, who was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 truly truly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 actually actually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 melting melt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 before before ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 very very ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy | | | | | indeed, sorry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **frighten** | past · passive | | Dorothy | | | | truly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | | the Witch | | | | actually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus | | 5 | **melt away** | gerund | | | | | before Witch's eyes | like brown sugar; away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/162/) - next →: [sentence 164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/164/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)