--- title: She could not understand how all her plans to destroy these stranger… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: She could not understand how all her plans to destroy these strangers had failed; but she was a powerful Witch, as well as a wicked one, and she soon made up her mind how to act. Who acts: Witch, strangers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/71/) [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/) / 71 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 71 She could not understand how all her plans to destroy these strangers had failed; but she was a powerful Witch, as well as a wicked one, and she soon made up her mind how to act. **Who acts:** Witch, strangers · **What happens:** not understand, destroy, fail, be, make up, act · **To what, where:** plans, powerful Witch, mind 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, strangers), 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:pg55:14:71 # text = She could not understand how all her plans to destroy these strangers had failed; but she was a powerful Witch, as well as a wicked one, and she soon made up her mind how to act. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 28 cc _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 fixed _ _ 25 as as ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 34 up up ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **understand** | could | Witch | Witch's plans | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus | | 2 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | Witch *not said here* | Witch's plans *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fail** | past · perfect | this strangers | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | Witch | a powerful Witch as a wicked one | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make up** | past | Witch | Witch's mind | | | | soon *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 6 | **act** | to-infinitive | Witch *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **plan** | | Witch | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **mind** | | Witch | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/72/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)