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title: I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds. Who acts: I, you. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 168

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I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** be, not think, melt, end · **To what, where:** little girl, me, wicked deeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you), 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:pg55:14:168
# text = I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | day | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | I | a little girl |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | you |  |  |  | ever | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **melt** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
| 5 | **end** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my wicked deeds |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality deed=Eventuality |

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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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