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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 124

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“One of my greatest fears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things.

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**Who acts:** most, Witches, my · **What happens:** be, have, find out, do, fear · **To what, where:** One Witches, magical powers, all, wonderful things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, Witches, my), 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:pg55:17:124
# text = “One of my greatest fears was the Witches, for while I had no magical powers at all I soon found out that the Witches were really able to do wonderful things.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Witches	Witch	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Witches	Witch	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | the One Witches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | past | most of people *= most* | no magical powers |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **find out** *in a quote* | past | most of people *= most* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Witches |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Witches *not said here* | wonderful things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **fear** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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