The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 16
“Oh, your Majesty, we thought you would be killed!
Who acts: we · What happens: think, kill · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 killed | aux:pass |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | we | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | would · passive | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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