The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 9
“This is bad,” said the Tin Woodman, “for if we cannot get to the land we shall be carried into the country of the Wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves.”
Who acts: This, Tin Woodman, we, land, Woodman · What happens: be, say, not get, carry, enchant, make · To what, where: we, country, us, slaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, Tin Woodman, we, land), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bad | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bad | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woodman | det |
| 9 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Woodman | compound |
| 10 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 get | advmod |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Woodman | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 land | det |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 carried | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 carried | aux:pass |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 land | acl:relcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Witch | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Witch | det |
| 31 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Witch | amod |
| 32 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 country | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 West | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 West | det |
| 35 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Witch | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 enchant | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 enchant | cc |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 enchant | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 enchant | aux |
| 40 | enchant | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | parataxis |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 enchant | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 make | cc |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 enchant | conj |
| 44 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 make | obj |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 46 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 make | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Woodman | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Woodman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tin Woodman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | we | to the land result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | shall · passive | the land not said here | we | the country of the Wicked Witch of the West | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | enchant in a quote | future | Woodman | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | infinitive | Woodman not said here | Woodman's slaves | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary slave=Product |
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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