--- title: Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I kne… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and had they not thought I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me. Who acts: Witches, I, fears. A sentence o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/126/) [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 XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/) / 126 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 126 Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and had they not thought I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me. **Who acts:** Witches, I, fears · **What happens:** be, know, do, have, not think, destroy · **To what, where:** harm, me, fears · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Witches, I, fears), 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:pg55:17:126 # text = Fortunately, the Witches of the North and South were good, and I knew they would do me no harm; but the Witches of the East and West were terribly wicked, and had they not thought I was more powerful than they themselves, they would surely have destroyed me. 1 Fortunately fortunately ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Witches Witch PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 East East PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 terribly terribly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ _ 43 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 ccomp _ _ 44 than than ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 50 surely surely ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux _ _ 52 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 conj _ _ 53 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Witches of the North South | | | | | fortunately, good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | past | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **do** | would | fears *= fear* | no harm | me | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the Witches of the East and West | | | | | terribly, wicked *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | fears *= fear* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | I | | | | | than fears *= fear*; powerful *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **destroy** | would · perfect · passive | | fears *= fear* | | | | surely *property* | tree rules | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/127/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)