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title: And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the stra… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.” Who acts: Wicked Witch. 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 e
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 42

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And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.”

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**Who acts:** Wicked Witch · **What happens:** say, fly, peck out, tear · **To what, where:** King Crow, eyes, crows · **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 (Wicked Witch), 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:pg55:14:42
# text = And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wicked Witch |  | the King Crow |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crow=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Wicked Witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the strangers | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **peck out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | crows's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **tear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | crows *= crow* |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result |

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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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