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title: But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had prom… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl. Who acts: action, I, my. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 79

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But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.

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**Who acts:** action, I, my · **What happens:** anger, promise, not marry, act · **To what, where:** Wicked Witch, old woman, pretty Munchkin girl

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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 (action, I, 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:pg55:7:79
# text = But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	angered	anger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anger** | past | my action | the Wicked Witch of the East |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus witch=Experiencer |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | action |  | the old woman |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent woman=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **marry** | should | I | the pretty Munchkin girl |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 4 | **act** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: 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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