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title: Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg. Who acts: Wicked Witch, I, axe. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 75

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Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.

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**Who acts:** Wicked Witch, I, axe · **What happens:** enchant, chop away, be, get, slip, cut off · **To what, where:** axe, new house, left leg

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. 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, I, axe), 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:pg55:7:75
# text = Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
41	all	all	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	40	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
46	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | past | the Wicked Witch | my axe |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus axe=Experiencer |
| 2 | **chop away** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  | day | away *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the new house |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 5 | **slip** | past | the axe |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **cut off** | infinitive | the axe *not said here* | my left leg |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality |

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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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