The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 71
But the Tin Woodman would not let her do this.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Dorothy · What happens: not let, do · To what, where: Dorothy, this
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, Dorothy), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Woodman | compound |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 let | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | would | the Tin Woodman | Dorothy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Dorothy not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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.
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