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title: “Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy. Who acts: road. 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 clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 3

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“Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy.

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**Who acts:** road · **What happens:** lead, ask · **To what, where:** Dorothy · **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 (road), 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:pg55:14:3
# text = “Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** *in a quote* | present | which road |  |  |  |  | to the Wicked Witch of the West | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to witch=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | which road *not said here* |  | Dorothy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient |

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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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